Of Mice And Men Quotes About Loneliness
Lennie – “If you don’ want me I can g off in the hills an’ find a cave. I can go away any time.”
George – “No—look! I was jus’ foolin’, Lennie. ‘Cause I want you to stay with me.”
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Boss – “Well, I never seen one guy take so much trouble for another guy. I just like to know what your interest is.”
George – “I got you! You can’t keep a job and you lose me ever’ job I get. Jus’ keep me shovin’ all over the country all the time.”
Candy – “When they can me here I wish somebody’d shoot me.”
Curley’s Wife – “I never get to talk to nobody. I get awful lonely.”
“I get lonely,” she said. “You can talk to people, but I can’t talk to nobody but Curley. Else he gets mad. How’d you like not to talk to anybody?”
Of Mice and Men, Chapter 5. Curley’s wife complaints about her lack of freedom and loneliness to Lennie in the barn.
“Why can’t I talk to you? I never get to talk to nobody. I get awful lonely.”
Of Mice and Men, Chapter 5. When Lennie tells Curley’s wife that he is not allowed to speak to her, she laments her lonely situation to him.
“Awright,” she said contemptuously. “Awright, cover ‘im up if ya wanta. Whatta I care? You bindle bums think you’re so damn good. Whatta ya think I am, a kid? I tell ya I could of went with shows. Not jus’ one, neither. An’ a guy tol’ me he could put me in pitchers…” She was breathless with indignation. ” – Sat’iday night. Ever’body out doin’ som’pin’. Ever’body! An’ what am I doin’? Standin’ here talkin’ to a bunch of bindle stiffs – a n***** an’ a dum-dum and a lousy ol’ sheep – an’ likin’ it because they ain’t nobody else.”
Of Mice and Men, Chapter 4. Like most of the ranch hands Curley’s wife has dreams. She dreamed of being in showbusiness and movies. But being little more than Curley’s property, she could not pursue her ambitions and instead lives a life of loneliness and no freedom. The names she calls Crook, Candy, and Lennie represent her prejudice towards blacks, the elderly, and people with disabilities.
“I seen it over an’ over – a guy talkin’ to another guy and it don’t make no difference if he don’t hear or understand. The thing is, they’re talkin’, or they’re settin’ still not talkin’. It don’t make no difference, no difference…It’s just the talking. It’s just bein’ with another guy. That’s all.”
Of Mice and Men, Chapter 4. Crooks to Lennie while they are talking about being lonely.
“I was born right here in Southern California. My old man had a chicken ranch, ’bout ten acres. The white kids come to play at our place, an’ sometimes I went to play with them, and some of them was pretty nice. My ol man didn’t like that. I never knew till long later why he didn’t like that. But I know now.” He hesitated, and when he spoke again his voice was softer. “There wasn’t another colored family for miles around. And now there ain’t a colored man on this ranch an’ there’s jus’ one family in Soledad.”
Of Mice and Men, Chapter 4. Crooks recalls how as a child his father didn’t like him playing with white kids.
“I could cook and tend the chickens and hoe the garden some. How’d that be?”
George half-closed his eyes. “I gotta think about that. We was always gonna do it by ourselves.”
Candy interrupted him, “I’d make a will an’ leave my share to you guys in case I kick off, ’cause I ain’t got no relatives nor nothing.”
Of Mice and Men, Chapter 3. George is discussing his and Lennie’s plans for a place of their own, where they’re the boss.
“I don’t want no fights,” said Lennie. He got up from his bunk and sat down at the table, across from George. Almost automatically George shuffled the cards and laid out his solitaire hand. He used a deliberate, thoughtful, slowness.
Of Mice and Men, Chapter 3. Lennie avoids fights by showing off his connection with George.
And these shelves were loaded with little articles, soap and talcum powder, razors and those Western magazines ranch men love to read and scoff at and secretly believe.
Of Mice and Men, Chapter 2. The contents of the shelves in the bunkhouse.
“If you don’ want me I can go off in the hills an’ find a cave. I can go away any time.”
“No – look! I was jus’ foolin’, Lennie. ‘Cause I want you to stay with me.”
Of Mice and Men, Chapter 1. Lennie and George.
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