Walking With A Friend In The Dark In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

“Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light,” said Helen Keller, an American author, political activist, and lecturer. In Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, the two main characters George and Lennie walked together in the dark. The inseparable pair were caught in a catastrophe, that could not be avoided. John Steinbeck wrote the death of Lennie with purpose of showing an analogy to the Great Depression in which our country struggled with for years.With uses of foreshadowing and character traits the death was easily predicted. Yet was a conundrum if this was an act of devotion toward their friendship, or an act by George to protect himself. Despite the confusion, the entire story was a building block onto the …show more content…
The first characters to be given this struggle is George and Lennie, “someday-- we’re gonna get the jack together and we’re gonna have a little house and a couple of acres,” (14). Steinbeck gave them this unrealistic dream to the two to give the sense of hope, that they will one day fulfill this dream. Another character who was given the struggle of an unrealistic dream was Candy, “When they can me here I wisht somebody’d shoot me. But they won’t do nothing like that. I won’t have no place to go” (60). He was meant to fall into the plan, just as George and Lennie had. Making them work in poverty for something every American was craving at the time. The last person to struggle for her dreams is Curley’s wife. Steinbeck makes it so her name is never said, because she is not worthy of it. That she is only property to curly, and that’s why she is hung up on her dream. “He says he was gonna put me in the movie. Says I was a natural. Soon’s he got back to Hollywood he was gonna write to me about it,” (88) it was a longing sensation to become famous. The desire of a dream to be noticed, and that is why Steinbeck never gave her name out. She was to seem desperate for something that was so impossible. All four of these characters tie in with the poem “To a Mouse” by Robert burns. “But Mousie, thou art no thy-lane,” But mouse, you are not alone. “In proving foresight may be vain The best laid schemes o …show more content…
Of Mice and Men was analogy to what The Great Depression, and the people that lived during it. To thrive for a dream even if it wasn’t realistic to push through it all. He wrote with moral to show that with dreams comes struggles, and even during hard times you need to push on. The novel gave wisdom, and portrayed what harshness came with such a gloomy time. Which means society today needs to be cautious, “An ' forward, tho ' I canna see, I guess an ' fear!” Even though we cannot see we push forward, and only guess and fear what holds in our