Dead Men In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men
When one of the protagonists, Lennie breaks Curley’s wife’s “neck”, he in turn kills his dream of a better life with George, his only hope in the world. Crooks foreshadows that their dream will not come true, saying that he has “seen hundreds of men come by on the road, an’ that same damn thing on their heads” … “ever’body wants a little piece of lan”, but none of them get it. Lennie’s “dead puppy” also foreshadows Lennie killing Curley’s wife, and in turn George and his dream. George and Lennie want to “live off the fatta the lan”, but in the world that Steinbeck has created, all hope of a better life is killed, like the dead mice in Lennie’s paws.