John Stienbeck’s novel “Of Mice and Men” is about the death of the American dream. George, Lennie and Candy’s dream is to own their own piece of land to work and live independently on. This dream is destroyed by Lennie’s ignorance and Lennie’s strength, which he cannot control. Curley’s wife’s dream is to be a famous Hollywood actress. Her dream is destroyed by her marriage to Curley and the Hollywood director who promised to contact her about her acting career but never has. Crook’s dream is for equality. Racism and the attitudes of others destroy this dream. Lennie and George’s dream is to own a piece of land to work and live where they can have cows, pigs, chicken a vegetable patch with alfalfa and rabbits. “O.K Someday – we’re going…show more content…
Despite hard work, dreams don't always come true. In the novel Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, George and Lennie work hard, but in the end, their dreams didn't come true. They both have a dream of owning a small farm with land and animals, where no one's in charge of them and they can do what they want. Throughout the story they both work hard at their jobs and try to stay out of trouble. But in the end, their dreams didn't come true despite their efforts. George and Lennie have always had a dream to own a place of their own where nobody would be the boss of them, so they could “live off the fatta the lan”(56). Because Lennie held onto the girl's dress and made a huge misunderstanding, both Lennie and George got into a lot of trouble so …show more content…
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Lennie’s death conclusively demonstrates one of the novella’s central ideas: according to the rules of the American economy, the weak and vulnerable cannot survive. At the end of Of Mice and Men, George spares Lennie from Curley’s wrath by shooting Lennie in the back of the head after reciting their shared dream of owning a farm one final time. Because George is forced to kill his friend himself, Lennie’s death is not only the death of a single vulnerable person, but also the destruction of a rare and idealized friendship. Throughout the novella, George and Lennie have viewed themselves as special and lucky because they have their friendship with one another, but in the end, all this means is that George must be the person to kill Lennie. This conclusion suggests that for the poorest and most isolated people, lasting friendship is a dream as cruelly unattainable as land ownership.
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