-2 themes in "Of Mice and Men", LONELINESS & DREAMS-
Loneliness: Many characters in "Of Mice and Men" admit to loneliness. George has confessions of loneliness early in the novel. George reminds Lennie that the life on the ranch is among the loneliest of lives. Other characters in the novel Candy, Curley's wife and Crooks all confess their loneliness. Candy is lonely because he is physically handicapped and cannot do that same things that other men do on the ranch. Crooks appears lonely in the novel due to the colour of his skin, he is singled out from the others and is put in a seperate bunk. Each of the characters have no friends to interact with and they have to interact and express their loneliness with strangers. In this book there are many reasons as to why the characters are lonely, each character posses characteristics which everyday people can relate too.
Dreams: The characters in the novel at some point express their dream of a different life. In the novel Curley's wife confesses her dream to be a movie star, Crooks has a dream of hoeing a patch of garden on Lennie's farm one day, and George's dream is of owning a couple acres. Each character in the book had their own set of dreams but none of them actually come true.
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