The Impact Of Dreams In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

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Dreams have a huge impact in everyone from characters from books to movies, to the whole world, and to yourself. Dreams can be both positive and negative. It all depends on how you look about it. In this book,” Of Mice and Men” dreams improve George and Lennie life since George would stop worrying about Lennie since they would be the boss. George would be able to relax and stop being the father figure to Lennie. It also is impacting how Candy is starting to act. On page 62 its states, “Candy joined the attack with joy” Carlson have been arguing to Curley about Curley’s Wife and how Curley always looking for her. Candy joined in since it would be okay if he got fired or canned, since he knows he going to have his own house soon with

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