A Cold Blooded Murderer; The American Dream In his fiction novella, Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck creates a meticulous evil mirage that results in deaths, which is called the american dream. Curley’s wife was poor but had a dream of being a rich actor , which was snatched away and is stuck with Curley. Lennie loves soft objects and dreams of owning a piece of land and tending rabbits on it, but unfortunately dies. Candy has a dream which he strongly believed in, to be a part of Lennie and George’s dream to live on their own land. John Steinbeck portrays the american dream as a mirage which is unattainable through Curley’s wife's failed dreams of being an actor, Lennie being murdered and Candy not achieving his dream of living with Lennie
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Candy is in Crook’s room with Lennie and they are discussing the dream to own land. Candy wants to be in their dream and optimistically exclaims “Me an’ Lennie an’ George. We gonna have a room to our self . We’re gonna have green corn an’ maybe a cow or a goat’”(76). Candy is an example of Steinbeck's american dream, where he is setting himself in a mirage. In the moment, Candy seems very optimistic in this dream and it is giving him hope and fueling him. This exactly fits in Steinbeck's view, where the american dream fuels the character, but will then never happen. After Curley’s Wife is killed, Candy is in the barn next to her body, and he realizes that the dream cannot happen now and Lennie is going to die, he angrily taunts Curley’s wife’s body, “‘You done it, di’n’t you? I s’pose you’re glad. Ever’body knowed you’d mess things up. You wasn’t no good. You ain’t no good now, you lousy tart.’”(Steinbeck,95). Steinbeck's view on the american dream, as the reader and Curley now find out that it is most likely unattainable. Curley’s dream is crushed and now he has to go back to his old, loney, state. He doesn’t even show sympathy to Curley’s Wife, because all he cares about is the dream. Candy’s american dream to live on Lennie and George’s land never happens and is just a
Candy is in Crook’s room with Lennie and they are discussing the dream to own land. Candy wants to be in their dream and optimistically exclaims “Me an’ Lennie an’ George. We gonna have a room to our self . We’re gonna have green corn an’ maybe a cow or a goat’”(76). Candy is an example of Steinbeck's american dream, where he is setting himself in a mirage. In the moment, Candy seems very optimistic in this dream and it is giving him hope and fueling him. This exactly fits in Steinbeck's view, where the american dream fuels the character, but will then never happen. After Curley’s Wife is killed, Candy is in the barn next to her body, and he realizes that the dream cannot happen now and Lennie is going to die, he angrily taunts Curley’s wife’s body, “‘You done it, di’n’t you? I s’pose you’re glad. Ever’body knowed you’d mess things up. You wasn’t no good. You ain’t no good now, you lousy tart.’”(Steinbeck,95). Steinbeck's view on the american dream, as the reader and Curley now find out that it is most likely unattainable. Curley’s dream is crushed and now he has to go back to his old, loney, state. He doesn’t even show sympathy to Curley’s Wife, because all he cares about is the dream. Candy’s american dream to live on Lennie and George’s land never happens and is just a