Men, women, and children all have hopes and dreams. People set unattainable goals in which they hope to accomplish even though their hope of completing this goal can disappear in a matter of seconds. When we think about how tenuous dreams can be, we think about how much agony we go through when our dreams are shattered. Dreams are extremely delicate and we aspire to achieve them, even though they may be unattainable. In the tragic novella Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck, Lennie, one of the stories protagonists, accidentally kills Curley’s Wife, a woman on the ranch. This destroys not only Lennie’s hopes for the future, but others too. Earlier in the novella, Curley’s Wife had dreams to become an actress, but this was also shattered. This
