Similarities Between Of Mice And Men And The American Dream

The American Dream is a characteristic spirit of an era that manifested its attitudes and aspiration meaning since the idea of the American Dream was constructed the dream to achieve the American dream never died, it just moved from one generations to generations evolving and adapting. As shown in ‘Of Mice and Men’ (1937) and ‘Death of a salesman’ (1949) the dreams they have is to own a property both Willy, Lennie and George and making money. Furthermore the novella and the play were written during 1930s and 50s the dream was different back then but these days the dream is personal freedom soon this will change as the dream evolves with the era. The American Dream has principles of freedom, equality and opportunity regardless of social class …show more content…
'. This shows that Steinbeck wanted to show a goose chase starting off with his main characters. Furthermore Steinbeck doesn 't only show the failure and hopelessness through Lennie and George, people living around George and Lennie also have dreams that varies from one person to …show more content…
Whereas Biff was the only promising character that would have achieved the American Dream because he knew what direction to take but never knew when was the right time? Although Happy has got himself a job that pays him handsomely he still isn 't satisfied with the way he is living his life, Happy knows that his brother could be bigger than him so he always has tried to stay in his shadows. Steinbeck created the book to show the reality of the American dream from one character to another. Steinbeck did not only include the reality but the social status of that time, the Great depression and migrant workers. Steinbeck starts of the book with the location "Soledad" at this point Steinbeck foreshadow the book from the beginning, the meaning of "Soledad" means loneliness in Spanish this shows that Steinbeck never had any clear intentions of showing that the book is going to be about triumph or