Of Mice And Men Dreams Analysis

Explore the ways that Arthur Miller and John Steinbeck use dreams in Of Mice and Men and Death of a Salesman –
Dreams are used throughout Death of a Salesman and Of Mice and Men. Both authors Miller and Steinbeck use dreams but from different perspective, different context and different backgrounds. John Steinbeck, before he became an author worked in a farm as a farm labourer and also worked at a sugar plant and a was a fruit picker in the West of America, in California, where most of his inspiration for his books such as The Pearl, East of Eden and Of Mice and Men took place. It was from the people on the farms that help influence his characters, additionally Steinbeck’s experiences of working at these farms had made him ask the question
In Of Mice and Men Lennie found out the hard way. When he killed Curly’s wife, George told him that if he got into trouble he should run away back to the deep green pool of the Salinas River where he stayed the night before they arrived at the ranch. When Lennie got there he started having hallucinations, he started hearing voices of his old Aunt Clara but in his own voice about how bad he had been treating George and how nice George had been to look after him “ he been doin’ nice things for you alla time. When he got a piece a pie you always got half or more un half. An, if there was any ketchup why he’d give it all to you “. This is important to the readers because even though it is from his Aunt Clara’s view it was actually from Lennie’s. “And when she spoke it was from Lennie’s voice “. This shows that Lennie knew he had done wrong and knew that George would be disappointed in him. Also in Of Mice and Men Lennie has more hallucinations after hearing Aunt Clair “Aunt Clara was gone out of Lennie’s head there came a gigantic rabbit “. Lennie was very fond of rabbits but the rabbits starting having a go at Lennie and Lennie started denying it. “Tend rabbits it said, scornfully, you crazy bastard, you ain’t fit to lick the boots of no rabbits, you’d forget em and let em go hungry, that’s what you’ll do. And then what would George think. I would not forget them, Lennie said loudly”. This is important because it shows however much you dream or however much you like animals you can be let down. In Death of a Salesman, Willy gets flashbacks of the past and most of the