No matter who you are or how hard you try, your plans can always go wrong because of fate and will cause loneliness and alienation. This condition of fate is shown through when Lennie plays in the pond. Lennie dabs “his big paw in the water and wiggled his fingers so the water arose in little slashes (3)”. The water ripples symbolize people’s dreams, trying to make it in the world. As the dreams “widened across the pool (3)”, plans start to form. But despite the plans strong momentum, the plans only make it “to the other side (3)” where the plans are abruptly stopped by fate. The waves then come back again only for Lennie to say “Look, George. Look what I done” (Steinbeck 3). This foreshadows what will inevitably happen to George and Lennie.
