What is a dream? A dream is something that is aspired and aimed for, something looked forward to achieving later in life. A dream is like a plan for the future. The only difference is that nothing can ensure that dreams will come true. Instead, it has the disappointing possibility of being a fake reality that turns out to be unachievable. In the John Steinbeck novel Of Mice and Men, the characters are dreamers. They are the people who had high hopes for their future, with a roadblock to prevent them from reaching their goals. They are the ones that face the terrible truth of never making it. This is why in Of Mice and Men, the main theme is that when people’s dreams do not come true, they have to face a harsh reality.
The first major dream that had not gone well was Crooks’s dream of having someone to interact with. Though it was not as ambitious as owning a land or becoming famous, Crooks’s dream was a personal thing he wished would happen to him. Crooks was separated from the other workers in many ways: he was crippled, which restricted him to working in the stable, and he was African-American. Because of this separation, he was pushed from everyone else, who were all caucasian. As he stated in chapter four, he had …show more content…
When Crooks realized he was not going to be accepted because of his skin color, he pushed people away. When Curley’s wife was unable to become an actress, she went in another direction by marrying someone out of impulse, not love. When Curley’s wife died, George and Candy had to give up their dream. The three examples have something in common: despite giving up their dreams, they still wished that their dreams can somehow come true. The only difference was how they dealt with them. In the end, everyone gains a life lesson from this, and that is that not all dreams will come true, and when they don’t, everyone faces a harsh
The first major dream that had not gone well was Crooks’s dream of having someone to interact with. Though it was not as ambitious as owning a land or becoming famous, Crooks’s dream was a personal thing he wished would happen to him. Crooks was separated from the other workers in many ways: he was crippled, which restricted him to working in the stable, and he was African-American. Because of this separation, he was pushed from everyone else, who were all caucasian. As he stated in chapter four, he had …show more content…
When Crooks realized he was not going to be accepted because of his skin color, he pushed people away. When Curley’s wife was unable to become an actress, she went in another direction by marrying someone out of impulse, not love. When Curley’s wife died, George and Candy had to give up their dream. The three examples have something in common: despite giving up their dreams, they still wished that their dreams can somehow come true. The only difference was how they dealt with them. In the end, everyone gains a life lesson from this, and that is that not all dreams will come true, and when they don’t, everyone faces a harsh