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The statement ‘i acquired you’ makes an unappreciative tone and an air flow of animosity. However Steinbeck has symbolized an eclectic relationship to indicate George’s personal needs for having Lennie as company. This kind of becomes evident when George tries to convince Lennie to be by expressing “no-look! I had been jus’ foolin’ causi desire you to stay with me”. Through George’s plea desperation can be heard in his voice due to the fear of complete loneliness.
The exclamation draw after “no –look! ” may show the raising of his voice with the realisation with the important impact Lennie provides in his existence. This is the effect that has held George and Lennie jointly not the promise to Lennie’s ‘Aunt Clara’. Even though George acts as a father figure to Lennie to depict Lennie’s needs in reality it is to darkness his ‘want’ and personal needs for Lennie. The ‘want’ is due to George knowing that in the event that he offered Lennie up it would just increase in his loneliness plus the fragment of hope leading him to believe he can accomplish the American dream will vanish.
While Steinbeck features Curly’s wifewithout a term yet every other character available including Thieves, a dark man who will be isolated via all the other men owns a name. His intentions as a result are to echo the position of women inside the 1930s and also to depict the treating her partner towards her. During this time girls were seen as possessions and owned by their husbands. As a result of women relying on their husbands for provisions it allowed men to get a stronger your hands on them. This is shown the moment Curly locates his partner dead, in the mention of sticking with her to mourn her death ‘his face reddened’ and he said “I’m goin”.
His reasons for going out of her can be not because he wants to take revenge for her death but because he’s still planning to highlight his masculinity, this is certainly interpreted while Curly uses the repeating of the term ‘big’ when describing Lennie to indicate the killing of Lennie would only enhance his self-image. Steinbeck has been doing this to show her solitude even following her fatality and to confirm the deficient romance between curly and his partner. This emphasises to the audience that women did not have virtually any status so much that they had been treated like cattle simply because were utilized for the personal requires of men.
The decline of Curly’s wife represents the death of her dreams. Because of this the affirmation the American desire was that of a fictional imagination and that the persons during this period made up dreams to present themselves with expect. Although her dream has become dead Steinbeck has shown you that the fatality has treated her of the existence full of distress and loneliness. ‘The meanness andthe plannings as well as the discontent and the ache pertaining to attention had been all absent fromher confront. ‘ Depicts this new identified freedom. Steinbeck has used the rule of three with the words ‘meanness’ ‘plannings’ and ‘discontent’. He has assigned her these kinds of qualities to protect up her suffering and isolation.
Likewise Lennie’s fatality also illustrates the loss of life of a fantasy and emphasises the imagination of the dream. But as opposed to curlys wife George is usually not arranged free from an encumbrance but is now trapped in the wonderful world of a typical ranch worker. This really is exemplified once George reminds Lennie of their dream and thatthey’ll “live on the fatta the lan’. ” In doing so he can additionally reminding himself of what is getting lost with all the intention of reliving his dream prior to it is murdered.
Steinbeck is using the theme of loneliness to illustrate the similarities between George and Curly’s partner. The main similarity is their very own masks. The smoothness of George uses his strength since Lennie’s protector to safeguard his internal vulnerability since an anxious man who will be afraid of what the future retains. Curly’s wife uses her feisty character to hide just how unhappy and depressed she’s.
