Hopelessness, you’ve heard of it, but do you really understand the feeling? In Of Mice and Men, a novel of two men who travel and work together, there is a sense of hopelessness when George and Lennie share their dreams with a few other people they encounter, they (the people) express their feeling of hopelessness towards that dream. George and Lennie though aren’t discouraged until the very end when everything goes wrong. Steinbeck develops the feeling of hopelessness in the novel in many ways. Hopelessness is like having all of your dreams crushed because of an inability to accomplish those goals. Hopelessness is the feeling or state of despair, i.e. Lack of hope. For instance when Lennie goes into Crooks room and starts to talk about his
