‘Of Mice and Men’ by John Steinbeck Essay

Of Mice and hands is written by John Steinbeck. The novel is set in the 1930s during the great depression in California. The two protagonist characters, George and Lennie argon farm makeers who have a dream of one-day owning their own ranch. They find work in a ranch near Soledad, after escaping from Weed because of Georges incident. They are met by contrastive characters on the farm that all have a dream. To be lonely means to lack friends or companionship and to feel isolated. Most of the characters are lonely and the only thing that keeps them alive is their dreams. Some of the loneliest characters they twin are Candy, an old serviceman with only one hand, Crooks, a black cripple and Curleys Wife, a woman who has no identity, she is lonely even though she is married. Although they are all on the ranch to thrumher, they are lonely because of who they are and their history. Of Mice and Men is an emotional story with many different themes and characters.Steinbeck presents Curley s wife as the only women in the ranch and because she doesnt have a name it shows that she is not important and she is persons belonging. The first time you hear about Curleys wife is when shadowdy describes her to George. Candy uses demonstration such as she got the eye and goes on to describe her as facial gestureing at new(prenominal) man because of this they call her a tart. Through Candys words, we could develop an initial perception of Curleys wife as Flirty and even promiscuous. This manipulates us by leading us into having a negative situation of her. Her first appearance in the Novel focuses on her appearance.The way she acts, the way she looks and the way she speaks with others. The first blame about her was the rectangle of sunshine in the doorway cut off this shows how she stands there to get attention and get noticed by the ranchers. This make us think as a reader in other way she stood in that certain place because she knows that they will look at her. Her physi cal appearance of adequate, rough lips and wide-spaced eyes, Heavily made up and her fingernails were red this shows how see got the natural shape on an actor. The heavily made up this shows that she want to make herself look attractive so the ranchers will look at her and feel love in her.The colour red shows that its a symbol of endangerment and on the other side the thick bright colours stands out from other things so this can make herself get noticed by others that is all she wanted. George seems to believe Candy he says to Lennie dont you even take a look at that bitch this shows the feelings that George got towards Curleys wife. She is lonely stands there looking in which shows she nothing to do and because of her loneliness she wanted to be loved by others so she acts alike she is flirting. They say she is a flirty but it is the only way she knows how to get attention.