"It is loneliness that makes the loudes noise. This is true of men as it is of dogs." Loneliness is like a disease you can't escape. At one time or another, everyone gets lonely. Some people are lonely all of their life, from when they are born to when they die. John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men is a good example of this because it talks about loneliness in all types of people.
In John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, Crooks often comes to mind as a portrayer of loneliness. Crooks is the crippled African-American stable buck that tends the horses on the farm in the story. He has a room all to himself in the back of the stable where he spends his nights alone. He pretends to enjoy the solitarity in which he lives until spending an evening with Lennie, who makes him realize how much is sucks to be alone. Crooks told Lennie that night "A guy goes nuts if ha ain't got nobody. Don't make no difference who the guy is, long's he's with you. I tell ya a guy gets too lonely an' he gets sick." (page 73) I think this is a good example of how messed up it is to feel lonely.
And next we have Candy, the old farm hand with only one hand. Candy has nobody in the world but his old dog, whom e is forced to put down on account of uselessness. Candy then starts to realize that, if he can't find a good reason to stay, they might just do the same to him. Candy is a good example of loneliness because he is always willing to do something for someone else because he thinks he doesn't have a reason to do something for himself. Candy said "I got hurt 4 years ago. They'll can me pretty soon. Just as soon as I can't swamp out no bunk house they'll put me on the county." He knows what may be coming, and he just wants to have some friends in his life before he does.
And on a completly different level, we have Curly's wife. Curly's wife was always everywhere, talking to everybody. She was never alone, but in a sense she was always lonely. Yes, she was married, but Curly was not a nice guy. Not only that, but he was often gone. And he was almost always mad. I think I'd be pretty lonely with a husband like that, wouldn't you? She said once, "If I catch any one man, and he's alone, I get along fine with him." She was constantly given a bad rep for chattin' up all the guys but she really just wanted someone to talk to.
In a way, "It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is true of men as it is of dogs." John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men is a good example of how you can't always escape loneliness but you can certainly learn to cope with it.
In John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, Crooks often comes to mind as a portrayer of loneliness. Crooks is the crippled African-American stable buck that tends the horses on the farm in the story. He has a room all to himself in the back of the stable where he spends his nights alone. He pretends to enjoy the solitarity in which he lives until spending an evening with Lennie, who makes him realize how much is sucks to be alone. Crooks told Lennie that night "A guy goes nuts if ha ain't got nobody. Don't make no difference who the guy is, long's he's with you. I tell ya a guy gets too lonely an' he gets sick." (page 73) I think this is a good example of how messed up it is to feel lonely.
And next we have Candy, the old farm hand with only one hand. Candy has nobody in the world but his old dog, whom e is forced to put down on account of uselessness. Candy then starts to realize that, if he can't find a good reason to stay, they might just do the same to him. Candy is a good example of loneliness because he is always willing to do something for someone else because he thinks he doesn't have a reason to do something for himself. Candy said "I got hurt 4 years ago. They'll can me pretty soon. Just as soon as I can't swamp out no bunk house they'll put me on the county." He knows what may be coming, and he just wants to have some friends in his life before he does.
And on a completly different level, we have Curly's wife. Curly's wife was always everywhere, talking to everybody. She was never alone, but in a sense she was always lonely. Yes, she was married, but Curly was not a nice guy. Not only that, but he was often gone. And he was almost always mad. I think I'd be pretty lonely with a husband like that, wouldn't you? She said once, "If I catch any one man, and he's alone, I get along fine with him." She was constantly given a bad rep for chattin' up all the guys but she really just wanted someone to talk to.
In a way, "It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is true of men as it is of dogs." John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men is a good example of how you can't always escape loneliness but you can certainly learn to cope with it.