The Dream of Mice and Men
The dream of mice and men
Everyone in this world dreams, but when dreams don’t come true why would you bother dreaming? For most of the people dreams are the only things they have left in their lives. In Steinbeck's book Of Mice and Men, he tells us the idea of destroyed dreams through the character's experiences showing us that no matter how much we try to sacrifice to make dreams come true, sometimes they just simply do not come true. From the beginning of the book, Lennie and George had the American dream. "We'll have a big vegetable patch and a rabbit hutch and chickens. And when it rains in the winter, we'll just say hell with goin' to work, and we'll build up a fire in the stove and set around it an' listen to the rain comin' down on roof. Said Steinbeck in his book. In lennie’s dream he looks after the rabbits. He likes this idea because he likes to pet things and the small things he finds as he is travelling around, like mice, are too easily hurt or killed when he pets them heavily. Rabbits are big enough for him to look after without hurting them. He also remembers that he used to pet rabbits when he lived with his Aunt Clara.
As George and Lennie travel around they tell each other their dream as a way of coping with the loneliness. But most men like them have something to look forward to and something to share. At the beginning it seems that George and Lennie's dream is just a imagination that will never come true, but when they meet Candy things change. Candy is a worker at the ranch and he has been there for a long time. Candy has almost enough money to buy a small farm. If George and Lennie save their money and don't get fired it seems that the three of them would really be able to get their dream. Lennie's dream also affects Crooks, the stable buck. Lennie shares his dream with him and for a moment even Crooks has a vision of a better life.
Lennie had his own dream without the accessory. His dream was to have a happy life, to have a rabbit of
Everyone in this world dreams, but when dreams don’t come true why would you bother dreaming? For most of the people dreams are the only things they have left in their lives. In Steinbeck's book Of Mice and Men, he tells us the idea of destroyed dreams through the character's experiences showing us that no matter how much we try to sacrifice to make dreams come true, sometimes they just simply do not come true. From the beginning of the book, Lennie and George had the American dream. "We'll have a big vegetable patch and a rabbit hutch and chickens. And when it rains in the winter, we'll just say hell with goin' to work, and we'll build up a fire in the stove and set around it an' listen to the rain comin' down on roof. Said Steinbeck in his book. In lennie’s dream he looks after the rabbits. He likes this idea because he likes to pet things and the small things he finds as he is travelling around, like mice, are too easily hurt or killed when he pets them heavily. Rabbits are big enough for him to look after without hurting them. He also remembers that he used to pet rabbits when he lived with his Aunt Clara.
As George and Lennie travel around they tell each other their dream as a way of coping with the loneliness. But most men like them have something to look forward to and something to share. At the beginning it seems that George and Lennie's dream is just a imagination that will never come true, but when they meet Candy things change. Candy is a worker at the ranch and he has been there for a long time. Candy has almost enough money to buy a small farm. If George and Lennie save their money and don't get fired it seems that the three of them would really be able to get their dream. Lennie's dream also affects Crooks, the stable buck. Lennie shares his dream with him and for a moment even Crooks has a vision of a better life.
Lennie had his own dream without the accessory. His dream was to have a happy life, to have a rabbit of