Throughout life, dreams that people have always strived for seem just out of reach. In John Steinback's Of Mice and Men, George and Lennie are two migrant workers staying at a ranch, with an assortment of other laborers, hoping to earn some cash desiring to obtain the life of their imaginations. Through the ups and downs of the past, Steinback's novel shows how Lennie's farm, Candy's hope to live out the rest of his life and Curley's wife's fantasies of being in the pictures were out of their control no matter how hard they tried to achieve their American Dream.
In the novel, Lennie has a mental disability preventing him from doing most things on his own, including his dream of living on a farm and taking care of animals. When Lennie and George are sitting by a pond drinking water George complains that he always has to "spen' all my time tellin' you things and then you forget 'em,"(4). George is saying this because Lennie has almost no mental capacity of his own, which …show more content…
When Curley's wife is talking to Lennie, she mentions how a man was going to "put me in the movies", however, she also says that "I never got that letter,'"(88). Curley's wife says that she believes her mother stole the letter preventing her from seeing it. This shows that even her loved ones do not want her to do what she has always wanted to. If everyone around her is against her, how could she possibly reach her goals even if she tried her hardest. Later in the conversation, Curley's wife continues on about her dream, talking about how "this guy says I was a natural."(88). But, once Curley's wife married Curley she was locked down and she could not even talk to other men. Without being able to talk to other people it was almost certain that she would be trapped on that ranch forever. With all these factors going against her, Curley's wife would never be in the
In the novel, Lennie has a mental disability preventing him from doing most things on his own, including his dream of living on a farm and taking care of animals. When Lennie and George are sitting by a pond drinking water George complains that he always has to "spen' all my time tellin' you things and then you forget 'em,"(4). George is saying this because Lennie has almost no mental capacity of his own, which …show more content…
When Curley's wife is talking to Lennie, she mentions how a man was going to "put me in the movies", however, she also says that "I never got that letter,'"(88). Curley's wife says that she believes her mother stole the letter preventing her from seeing it. This shows that even her loved ones do not want her to do what she has always wanted to. If everyone around her is against her, how could she possibly reach her goals even if she tried her hardest. Later in the conversation, Curley's wife continues on about her dream, talking about how "this guy says I was a natural."(88). But, once Curley's wife married Curley she was locked down and she could not even talk to other men. Without being able to talk to other people it was almost certain that she would be trapped on that ranch forever. With all these factors going against her, Curley's wife would never be in the