Everyone has dreams, a place they want to be, a life they want to live. When I look at John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men I notice the use of dreams throughout the novel. John Steinbeck uses the motif of dreams in Of Mice and Men as an expression of hope, a contrast of reality and comfort.
Dreams are used in Of Mice and Men to give characters comfort and a sense of safety. Lennie is comforted by the dream George has told him so many times. “We’ll have a big vegetable patch and a rabbit hutch and chickens”. (George) Pg. 14. We hear George tell Lennie the dream because it comforts him when things are hard. It is a happy and familiar fantasy that Lennie needs to hear. “An’ live off the fatta the lan’,” (Lennie) Pg. 14. This quote also shows comfort. It symbolizes the George and Lennie's version of the American dream and we hear it repeated throughout the novel. They go back to it many times to comfort them through hard times and remind George and Lennie of where they want to be one day.
When we see Lennie attempt to explain the dream and how it will happen in real life to Crooks, it expresses to me that the dream is implausible. “We’re gonna have rabbits an’ a berry patch.” (Lennie) Pg. 73. This quote …show more content…
As they continue to speak of the dream John Steinbeck does a good job expressing hope through Candy. ‘He leaned forward eagerly. “S’pose I went with you guys. Tha’s three hundred an’ fifty bucks i’d put in. I ain’t much good but I could cook and tend the chickens and hoe the garden some. How’d that be?”’(Candy) pg. 59. This quote like the last shows that all three of them are eager for a better life. What this quote also shows me as the reader is that Candy has hope to an extent that he can fantasize what he will do and how is life will be after the dream comes true. This is just one way that dreams are used to show the motif of dreams through
Dreams are used in Of Mice and Men to give characters comfort and a sense of safety. Lennie is comforted by the dream George has told him so many times. “We’ll have a big vegetable patch and a rabbit hutch and chickens”. (George) Pg. 14. We hear George tell Lennie the dream because it comforts him when things are hard. It is a happy and familiar fantasy that Lennie needs to hear. “An’ live off the fatta the lan’,” (Lennie) Pg. 14. This quote also shows comfort. It symbolizes the George and Lennie's version of the American dream and we hear it repeated throughout the novel. They go back to it many times to comfort them through hard times and remind George and Lennie of where they want to be one day.
When we see Lennie attempt to explain the dream and how it will happen in real life to Crooks, it expresses to me that the dream is implausible. “We’re gonna have rabbits an’ a berry patch.” (Lennie) Pg. 73. This quote …show more content…
As they continue to speak of the dream John Steinbeck does a good job expressing hope through Candy. ‘He leaned forward eagerly. “S’pose I went with you guys. Tha’s three hundred an’ fifty bucks i’d put in. I ain’t much good but I could cook and tend the chickens and hoe the garden some. How’d that be?”’(Candy) pg. 59. This quote like the last shows that all three of them are eager for a better life. What this quote also shows me as the reader is that Candy has hope to an extent that he can fantasize what he will do and how is life will be after the dream comes true. This is just one way that dreams are used to show the motif of dreams through