The “Of Mice and Men” and its Pursuit of a Shared Dream Novels and books act as tools to tell stories of all varieties. These novels tell stories of all varieties, but through analysis, it is possible to delve deeper into why the author wrote the story the way they did and why they were so deliberate with certain choices. One of such stories, telling of two Californian ranchers during the Great Depression, is a clear cut example of what it means to be deliberate with one’s writing and how that changes the story overall. In the novella, “Of Mice and Men,” John Steinbeck uses symbolism, foreshadowing, and dramatic irony in order to represent the hardship characters are forced to face, all for the sake of one, shared dream; even if that dream
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This sense of hopelessness this creates within the audience knowing the character is unaware and they can do nothing else but continue reading, furthers the struggles these characters must face and utterly demolishes any chance these characters had at getting that farm they wanted. Steinbeck’s deliberate choice to include dramatic irony in this scene conveys George’s own conflict and struggle in the story that he must overcome while keeping Lennie’s dream intact, even though he is fully aware that simply can not be. For the most part, Steinbeck utilizes these rhetorical devices exceedingly well in order to display the overall themes regarding a shared motivation that may never be obtained, and the struggle to try and attain it unknowing of that fact. Steinbeck continuously pushes for the themes as he also pushes to evoke emotions within the reader in order to do so and we see this in the farm’s symbolism, the foreshadowing that leads to the climax, and the very last scene of the story in which one Lennie is unaware that neither of them will get to fulfill that dream of living on a farm and living off the fat of the
This sense of hopelessness this creates within the audience knowing the character is unaware and they can do nothing else but continue reading, furthers the struggles these characters must face and utterly demolishes any chance these characters had at getting that farm they wanted. Steinbeck’s deliberate choice to include dramatic irony in this scene conveys George’s own conflict and struggle in the story that he must overcome while keeping Lennie’s dream intact, even though he is fully aware that simply can not be. For the most part, Steinbeck utilizes these rhetorical devices exceedingly well in order to display the overall themes regarding a shared motivation that may never be obtained, and the struggle to try and attain it unknowing of that fact. Steinbeck continuously pushes for the themes as he also pushes to evoke emotions within the reader in order to do so and we see this in the farm’s symbolism, the foreshadowing that leads to the climax, and the very last scene of the story in which one Lennie is unaware that neither of them will get to fulfill that dream of living on a farm and living off the fat of the