Loneliness

• Loneliness means...
• Loneliness can also be...
• Loneliness might even be defined as...
• Another way to look at loneliness is...

“Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.”

The permanent farm workers are arguably more 'rootless' than the migrant workers in the novel.

Some characters have themselves to blame for their isolation.

The pursuit of the American Dream is, in one sense, the pursuit of loneliness.

Curley's Wife suffers the most from loneliness in the text.

Curley is as much to be pitied in the text as Crooks or Candy.

All of the characters in Of Mice and Men are isolated in some way; there are no genuine connections.

Steinbeck presents a sharp distinction in Of Mice and Men between 'being alone' and 'loneliness'.

Only the minority characters in the text can deeply experience loneliness.