Lennie's Monologue

When I was younger I had a very vibrant dream in the back of my mind. My family has never been the rich family, and I have never gotten everything I wanted. I had this dream, that I would be the one to save my family from poverty. I’d get famous, have tons of money, and bring my family to live in my mansion. Most of my time was spent thinking about that single dream that I had for years. That being said, I understand how Lennie felt, and why he always had that dream of the rabbits in his mind. He talks multiple times of the dream, and it is a very prominent thing in the book. The decisions that Lennie makes are overshadowed by his dream of finally pleasing George and tending to the rabbits.

This constant dream of tending to the rabbits that Lennie has is all he ever seems to remember. There are things that he will forget, such as his own aunt, and things that Lennie will tell him to do, yet when they talk about the story of the
If he ever makes George mad he still talks to him and makes sure he can continue his dream. He is so scared of George not letting him tend to the rabbits, that he tends to hide things from him once in a while, so he won’t find out about it. After he kills the little puppy, he is in a bid of distress; “Why do you got to get killed? You ain’t so little as mice. I didn’t bounce you hard.” He bent the pup’s head up and looked in its face, and he said to it, “Now maybe George ain’t gonna let me tend no rabbits, if he fin’s out you got killed.” He talks about how George might not let him tend to the rabbits, and is obviously distressed about it. He then continues to hide the pup under the hay, in hopes that nobody will notice it. This clearly is a sign that he knows he has done a bad thing, but wants to hide it, so that he doesn’t have to give up the dream that has been glued in his mind for