Of Mice and Men - Loneliness

Loneliness In: Of Mice and Men Loneliness is an inevitable fact of life that not even the strongest can avoid. In the novel Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck illustrates the loneliness of California ranch life. Throughout the story, the reader discovers the many sources of solitude, primarily being discrimination and prejudice, resulting in loneliness and isolation. I feel that loneliness is a sense of insecurity and emptiness in one’s life and the only …

…puppy, however Candy will still be stuck at the ranch until he is fired because their dreams of a farm of their own is now over. One of the most important lessons we learn in Of Mice and Men is that friendship and human interaction are two very valuable things, and that having them is as much a right as it is a privilege, that we must treasure as it keeps us away from loneliness.