Foreshadowing is used throughout the novel to show the how fatal loneliness can truly be, it shows this when George and Lennie are talking about how truly lonely they would be without each other. An example of foreshadowing from the text is when George states “ Guy’s like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world,” ( Steinbeck, page …show more content…
“ You an’ me can go there an’ live nice, can’t we George? Can’t we? Before George answered, Candy drooped his head…” (Steinbeck, pg. 94). Symbolism is revealed in this quote because it was an idea that was beginning to form while Lennie and George still had each other, but the dream was truly an idea for just the two of them. This establishes the theme because the ranch was like an idea of friendship and the idea was holding on by all of their friendship, but without lennie the idea of friendship died and turned into loneliness.
Still today loneliness is shown in everyone's life, in differents ways but none the less. People need someone to be there for them at all times, if they don’t they put all of these ideas in their head, and push everyone out. Loneliness makes a person see the world as worthless, no meaning, and become