Of Mice and Men

A detailed Summary of Of Mice and Men

Loneliness is a disease. It eats away at people slowly, gradually tearing them limb from limb. It is a virus that sends some people insane, some turn senile, it sorts the strong characters from the weak and it can devastate lives. In the book "of Mice and Men" I am going to look at 3 different characters and compare them and how they cope with this disease. Not only this but how this affects them, their hopes and their dreams.

You never learn the name of Curley's wife, which shows how she is thought of in the farm. I think she is regarded as one of Curley's possessions. She is always heavily made up and sometimes dressed up. She mostly wears sexy clothes, which attracts the farm workers. "She had full rouged lips and wide-spaced eyes, heavily made up. Her fingernails were red. Her hair hung in little rolled clusters, like sausages". I think that all of this shows that she spends a lot of time on her own and that she doesn't go out much. But when she does go out of the house to talk to ranch workers she tries to make an impression by using make-up etc. "She's purty¨ said Lennie, "yeah and she's sure hiding it¨ George says sarcastically. George means that Curley's wife wants the attention of everyone. She wants everyone t

I think that she is very lonely. As she is the only woman on the ranch, she has no one to talk to. She tries to talk to some of the workers but they are scared of what Curley would do to them. This definitely adds to her loneliness.

Loneliness is a disease. But there were other who were not so lucky Crooks was intensely unhappy, unconfident and seriously mentally damaged from the lasting affects of loneliness. Curley's wife was killed essentially by loneliness; it was that that made her talk to the farm workers.

In chapter 4 Crooks gets the chance to be horrible to some one else. He turns on Lennie and starts to be really spiteful to him suggesting George won't come back. I think all those years alone have made him feel that he is always picked on and now he has the chance to pick on someone else so he does. But he then backs down for fear of Lennie losing his patience. Crooks enjoys talking to Lennie because he knows that none of it will come out and he can tell Lennie anything he wants to. He confides in Lennie and begins to trust him with secrets he has never told anyone. Crooks starts to describe his earliest memories and he begins to reflect on his own life. After picking on Lennie Crooks has a new found confidence that makes him feel almost equal to Lennie and Candy. As Lennie describes his dream home, Crooks is very cynical about it and he doesn't believe it will happen. But when Candy comes in and joins in the conversation Crooks realises how close they are to their dream. This inspires him and he wants to join in.

When she dies P98. It shows her loneliness disappearing from her face. When she is alive she is troubled and her face is always full of emotions but when she dies all that goes away from her. And she is left happy and trouble-free.

Because her dreams fail she marries Curley. Now she is trapped on this ranch

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Approximate Word count = 1260
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: English