Hari Senthilkumar
10/20/14
Period 6
Dreams and their Effect in Of Mice and Men
In the novel Of Mice and Men, the author, John Steinbeck, uses the American Dream of moving up in their life but characters find themselves to lose hope and feel worse than they were before. This book was set to be in the time period of the Great Depression which was a time of isolation and loneliness. Dreams are used to fill the minds of characters with hope and help them overcome their loneliness but it turns out to be the opposite. Seeing the outcome of each character’s dreams, the closer a person gets to fulfilling their dream, the closer they are to get potentially devastated as seen in the cases of George, Crooks, and Curley’s Wife.
Crooks is also provided …show more content…
As she shares her dream with Lennie by saying “I never got the letter …I coulda made somethin’ of myself. She said darkly….Met him out to the Riverside Dance Palace that same night … she demanded... Coulda been in the movies, an’ had nice clothes.”( 88-89). As she tries to make her fantasy become a reality by meeting him down by the Riverside Dance Palace, she gets ditched and is left to be alone. But she tries hard to make the dreams come true by going to “them previews and spoke in the radio”. She has been raised along with false hope the entire time which is also clearly explained when she “said darkly” in the thoughts of an unpleasant memory. She works so hard but is disappointed when she does not finish in first place trying to fulfill the dream. She gets angry feelings when she thinks of her dream which is clearly evidenced when she “demanded” Lennie. As a person who was brought up with high aspirations, she falls the hardest when her dream was not fulfilled. She is so desperate when she fails her dream, that she marries Curly who is not a “nice guy”. All in all, Curley’s wife too had a dream of being in the “movies” and she works hard and tries to make it possible but alas, her fate too ends …show more content…
George made a big sacrifice and created a plan to ensure that the dream will become a reality. However Lennie’s death as George clearly says “softy I think I knowed from the very first. I think I knowed we’d never do her. He usta like to hear about it so much I got to thinking maybe we would.”(94). George had sacrificed so much time and responsibility to keep Lennie in track and make their dream closer to reality. Also the way the author uses the word “softly” the reader also understands how hurt George must have felt and how he couldn’t express how said he was. The trio tried as hard as they could to keep low from the beginning and make the dream more than just a means of storytelling but it seems that fate has something else in store for them. The author shows the true nature of dreams about how dreams can hurt us emotionally if left
10/20/14
Period 6
Dreams and their Effect in Of Mice and Men
In the novel Of Mice and Men, the author, John Steinbeck, uses the American Dream of moving up in their life but characters find themselves to lose hope and feel worse than they were before. This book was set to be in the time period of the Great Depression which was a time of isolation and loneliness. Dreams are used to fill the minds of characters with hope and help them overcome their loneliness but it turns out to be the opposite. Seeing the outcome of each character’s dreams, the closer a person gets to fulfilling their dream, the closer they are to get potentially devastated as seen in the cases of George, Crooks, and Curley’s Wife.
Crooks is also provided …show more content…
As she shares her dream with Lennie by saying “I never got the letter …I coulda made somethin’ of myself. She said darkly….Met him out to the Riverside Dance Palace that same night … she demanded... Coulda been in the movies, an’ had nice clothes.”( 88-89). As she tries to make her fantasy become a reality by meeting him down by the Riverside Dance Palace, she gets ditched and is left to be alone. But she tries hard to make the dreams come true by going to “them previews and spoke in the radio”. She has been raised along with false hope the entire time which is also clearly explained when she “said darkly” in the thoughts of an unpleasant memory. She works so hard but is disappointed when she does not finish in first place trying to fulfill the dream. She gets angry feelings when she thinks of her dream which is clearly evidenced when she “demanded” Lennie. As a person who was brought up with high aspirations, she falls the hardest when her dream was not fulfilled. She is so desperate when she fails her dream, that she marries Curly who is not a “nice guy”. All in all, Curley’s wife too had a dream of being in the “movies” and she works hard and tries to make it possible but alas, her fate too ends …show more content…
George made a big sacrifice and created a plan to ensure that the dream will become a reality. However Lennie’s death as George clearly says “softy I think I knowed from the very first. I think I knowed we’d never do her. He usta like to hear about it so much I got to thinking maybe we would.”(94). George had sacrificed so much time and responsibility to keep Lennie in track and make their dream closer to reality. Also the way the author uses the word “softly” the reader also understands how hurt George must have felt and how he couldn’t express how said he was. The trio tried as hard as they could to keep low from the beginning and make the dream more than just a means of storytelling but it seems that fate has something else in store for them. The author shows the true nature of dreams about how dreams can hurt us emotionally if left