Of Mice and Men - Dreams
Dreams are an important part of the lives of the characters in John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men. They show what the characters feel inside and what they aspire to be someday. The goals of George, Lennie, Candy, Crooks, and Curley’s wife can provide a whole new look of the characters and the actions they make throughout the story.
George and Lennie share a dream to be landowners someday and own their own farm where they can have friends come over and hire workers to labor for them. George says ¨Someday, we're gonna get the jack together and we're gonna have a little house and a couple of acres an´ a cow and some pigs¨ and Lennie finishes the story with, ¨An we gonna live off the fatta the lan! An’ have rabbits.´¨ (Steinbeck 14) For George, the dream is the hope of one day being independent and not having to work for anyone but themselves. For Lennie, it's the comfort of something soft and familiar and being with George that calms him down.
Candy’s dream is to be useful again. He lost his right hand in an accident while working on the ranch and in chapter 3, his old dog gets put down by Carlson. He hears about George and Lennie´s plan to buy some land and offers his savings in exchange for a home when they purchase the land. Candy says “S’pose I went in with you guys. Tha’s three hundred an’ fifty bucks I’d put in. I …show more content…
The sense of achievement for doing even small tasks can be monumental for some. In Of Mice And Men, none of the characters are shown to achieve their dreams, even when characters like George, Lennie, and Candy were so close to their happy ending. Assuming the book took place in the beginning of the 1930s, Crooks wouldn't have his dream accomplished for nearly 30 years. Curley´s wife had the saddest story of all, being forced into a marriage with a man she didn't love and being accidentally killed before she could make an attempt at her dreams in
Dreams are an important part of the lives of the characters in John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men. They show what the characters feel inside and what they aspire to be someday. The goals of George, Lennie, Candy, Crooks, and Curley’s wife can provide a whole new look of the characters and the actions they make throughout the story.
George and Lennie share a dream to be landowners someday and own their own farm where they can have friends come over and hire workers to labor for them. George says ¨Someday, we're gonna get the jack together and we're gonna have a little house and a couple of acres an´ a cow and some pigs¨ and Lennie finishes the story with, ¨An we gonna live off the fatta the lan! An’ have rabbits.´¨ (Steinbeck 14) For George, the dream is the hope of one day being independent and not having to work for anyone but themselves. For Lennie, it's the comfort of something soft and familiar and being with George that calms him down.
Candy’s dream is to be useful again. He lost his right hand in an accident while working on the ranch and in chapter 3, his old dog gets put down by Carlson. He hears about George and Lennie´s plan to buy some land and offers his savings in exchange for a home when they purchase the land. Candy says “S’pose I went in with you guys. Tha’s three hundred an’ fifty bucks I’d put in. I …show more content…
The sense of achievement for doing even small tasks can be monumental for some. In Of Mice And Men, none of the characters are shown to achieve their dreams, even when characters like George, Lennie, and Candy were so close to their happy ending. Assuming the book took place in the beginning of the 1930s, Crooks wouldn't have his dream accomplished for nearly 30 years. Curley´s wife had the saddest story of all, being forced into a marriage with a man she didn't love and being accidentally killed before she could make an attempt at her dreams in