loneliness

Question 1

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Answer 1

• Name of farm near the ranch is ‘Soledad’, which translates from Spanish to solitude
• George and Lennie stand out as travelling companions. But they still both experience loneliness: George as he has to take care of Lennie, and has no one else. Lennie as he has loneliness in his mental disability.
• Candy, Curley’s wife and Crooks are key characters when explaining loneliness

Question 2

Candy: ‘I ain’t … … … or nothing’

Answer 2

‘I ain’t got no relatives or nothing’
- Isolated because of his age and disability, making him less helpful on the ranch and more of an inconvenience: Candy believes he might soon be fired and has no one.
- No empathy for him when is dog is killed for being old, leaving Candy to deal with on his own and worry about him having the same fate for the same reason.

Question 3

Curley’s wife: ‘I … get to … … … . I get awful …’

Answer 3

‘I never get to talk to nobody. I get awful lonely’
- Curley’s wife is looked at as a flirtatious women with no dignity
- She has a bad relationship with her husband and that causes her to seek attention from the other men on the ranch
- When the men still ignore her, this causes her to seek further attention
- Even from Lennie. She enjoys the attention and lets him touch her hair, getting her killed. All from her loneliness.

Question 4

Crooks: ‘I ain’t … … … … … , and you … … … … …’

Answer 4

‘I ain’t wanted in the bunk house, and you ain’t wanted in my room’
- Demonstrates the lonely effects of segregation, as he is the only black person in amongst a ranch of white people
- Shows the damage that this isolation has done to him and the bitterness because of it
- It has made him unapproachable and more