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Mice and Men

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In the novel 'of mice and men' is mostly about friendship and loneliness. To begin with, Curley's wife is an extremely lonely woman; she has a loveless marriage and no friends out in the ranch. This means she has no one to talk to, she can't talk to her husband because he "spends all his time sayin' what he's gonna do to guys he don't like, and he don't like nobody." This indicates that she has nobody to talk to because all her husband does is talk about who he is going to beat up next. She needs love and attention. One Saturday evening in crooks' stable bunk, she says she is "standing here talking to a bunch of bindle stiffs-a nigger an' a dum-dum and a lousy ol' sheep-an likin it because there aint nobody else." Curley wouldn't let his wife go out that night with him and the...

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