Of Mice and Men Essay
Of Mice and Men ‘’Of Mice and Men’’ is a book about loneliness and there are many symbols that represent it, for instance the bunk house and the Crook being separated form the other men, a symbol of isolation because to loneliness because since Crook is black and no one is allowed to enter to Crook’s room and if you think about it Steinbeck has a variety of people of different shape, size, and gender making his own little world of different people and discrimination. In this book there are many symbols and all refer to loneliness in a way. To begin with, the bunk house represents almost everyone in the bunk house discrimination, sexist, racist, and loneliness. To begin with, Crook, Candy, Candy’s dog is one perfect example of racist and loneliness. For example, Crook is black and back then people were racist against black people so Crook was lonely and didn’t trust people also Candy and Candy’s dog , Candy regrets not killing the dog himself and he and his dog are so old they are now useless, while Carlson wanted to kill the dog for being old and useless. Next, Curley’s wife is another one in the bunkhouse. In fact, while reading people may ask why doesn’t she have a name instead of Curley’s wife? Curley’s wife always seeks attention in the end while seeking attention cause her death by Lennie. Then, Lennie, George, Curley, AND Slim are all about size and who gets power. Yet, George and Curley are short while Slim and Lennie are tall normally the tallest gets power but George takes charge of Lennie, while Curley thinking that he is in charge because he is the bosses son when Lennie crushes his hand making Curley’s crushed hand a symbol of loss in power. Finally, the bunkhouse is filled of many people of different sizes, shape, race, and gender almost like Steinbeck’s own little world full of people and the bunk house is the significance of it this symbol. In the end the bunk house is an important symbol in the novel of ‘’Of Mice and Men’’ cause they