The Theme Of Isolation In Of Mice And Men

Steinbeck conveys that isolation, voluntary or not, can be experienced even when one is around many people. He shows isolation through his use of characterization. The author portrays voluntary isolation with Curley's wife and her husband. "You can talk to people, but I can’t talk to nobody but Curley. Else he gets mad.” (Steinbeck 84). Steinbeck also portrays involuntary isolation by creating Curley as a overprotective husband who disapproves of her talking to other men. By making Curly’s character with this personality it involuntarily creates a sense of isolation for Curley's wife because the working men do not like being around her because she is a flirt and they do not want to get in trouble from Curley in result making no-one want