Of Mice And Men's Dream Failure

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Have you ever had dreams you wanted to come true but never did? Or have any of your goals fail because something and or someone gets in the way? Many people have wanted tis truth of seceding their goal but failing. This truth is shown in John Steinbeck's book Of Mice And Men, characters lose their dreams. His characters Lennie, Candy and Curley’s wife have their dreams crushed by the cruel real world. First, Lennie’s dream of having rabbits to tend to and play with is ruined. The real world wrecks his fantasy because George needed to kill him as painlessly as possible. The dream of rabbits died with Lennie. George was forced to kill Lennie or else he would have suffered to Curley. This is shown when Curley says “. . . don’t give ‘im no

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