Loneliness Flashcards
What 4 contexts are there
The Wall Street crash and Great Depression
The dust bowl and migrant workers
Woman pushed back into the home
Racism and segregation
How did loneliness affect George and Lennie
‘Guys like us, not that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family. They don’t belong no place.’
‘George went on. ‘With us it ain’t like that. We got a future. We got someday to all to that gives a damn about us…’
Lennie broke in. ‘But not us!an why? Because… because i got your to look after me, and you got me to look after you, that’s why’
How did loneliness affect candy
‘Well-hell! I had him so long. Had him since he was a puppy. I herded sheep with him.’
Now candy spoke his greatest fear. You an me can get that little, can’t we George? You an me go there a live nice, can’t we George? Can’t we?
Before George, answered candy dropped his head and looked down at the hay. He knew.’
How did loneliness affect crooks
‘And scattered about the floor were a number of person possessions; for being alone, crooks could leave his things about.’
‘Well you keep you place then… i could get you strung up on a tree so easy it ain’t even funny. Crooks had reduced himself to nothing. There was no personality, no ego - nothing to arouse either like or dislike.’
How did loneliness affect Curley’s wife
‘I get lonely… you can talk to people, but I can’t talk to nobody but Curley’s. Else he gets mad. How’d you like not to talk to anybody’
What does Soledad mean in Spanish
Isolation
Why do all the men play solitaire
It’s weird as it’s a solo game which shows they are all isolated from each other but play cards together
How are George and Lennie initially introduced and how does it show loneliness
‘They walked in single file down the path, and even in the open one stayed behind the other.’
Which shows they are not together that Lennie is following George, and they are in a single journey
