Intro “Of Mice and Men” Isolation English Assessment

In “Of Mice and Men”, there is an immense concept of solitude and loneliness which is smothered all over the characters and story. This concept leads to characters becoming isolated and the forging of an emerging idea, loneliness damages people. This story starts with a fitting and supporting metaphor, “A few miles south of Soledad…..”, this opening sentence is announcing the first major theme of the book and is fascinating how Steinbeck has implicated it; Soledad in Spanish is translated as Solitude, if you then replace Soledad with Solitude you get, “A few miles south of Solitude”. So the setting of the novella is set a few miles away from solitude which furthermore implies that the location is almost at complete loneliness.
However this quote is not just a fitting metaphor but an implication of foreshadow which the book is absolutely teeming with. Foreshadow becomes to play a massive part in the plot of the novella and forecasts a range of events that Steinbeck subtly sets into motion. Overall the book is focused on complete realism, that every action has a consequence and that every comment has an effect on different characters.