Comparing The American Dream In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

The American Dream as everyone knows it, is the ideal lifestyle that most US citizens often chase after. But this lifestyle is awfully hard to actually attain. John Steinbeck is a author who wrote the book Of Mice and Men, with the two main characters being George and Lennie. The novel is set in 1993, in the farmland of the Salinas Valley. The setting is used to showcase the poverty and lifestyle of the characters in that time, which was during the Great Depression. The two boys dream of one day owning their own ranch, animals, and crops. And by the end of the story, everything either died off or didn’t work out at all. Throughout the story, Steinbeck uses the ranch, the rabbits, and the puppy to portray the downfall of the American Dream. …show more content…
While conversing with Lennie, George exclaims to him “...we’re gonna get the jack together… and have a little house and a couple acres” (Steinbeck 14). The boys get this idea of one day becoming owners. This in which connects to the ideal of an ordinary American citizen… coming from the struggle. Coming from such rough times, American citizens today, choose to use that for the better and make something of that. It isn’t rare to hear the story of someone doing good in life, being just that way. But throughout the novel, it becomes more and more clear that this dream will not be able to come to past. The idea of owning the rabbits helped show