In Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck used the theme of loneliness to show that loneliness is unhealthy, and dangerous to a persons well being. He used the death Candy's Dog to symbolize the fate waiting for anyone who has outlived their purpose. Animal Imagery is used when Lennie drank like a horse from the stream. This caused the reader to imagine a huge man with the mind of a child. Foreshadowing occurred when Lennie …showed first 75 words of 1189 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1189 total…fight. The final literary device was the most important. Symbolized showed that sometime everyone and everything has an important part in making the story. The farm that was imagined made a dream for the ranchers while Candy's dogs death made him realize that he had to join them in getting the farm or he would be kicked out of the ranch like his dog. So everyone and everything fell perfectly into place in the end.