Dreams and Decisions in 'Of Mice and Men'

Of Mice and Men Decisions and Dreams
The novella “Of Mice and Men” is written by John Steinbeck. The book is about two migrant workers George and Lennie who take on a job working on a ranch. George is a small man with sharp features, an opposite to Lennie. George takes care of lennie who has a mental disability. While on the ranch george and lennie encounter curley's wife. Curley's wife is married to the boss's son curley. She is the only woman on the ranch. She knows that her beauty is her power and uses it to flirt with the men on the ranch. All of the characters have their own dreams that they wish to accomplish and decisions that they have made throughout the story. George dreams of being independent and having a farm to call his own where he won't have to worry about lennie's

He dreams of being his own boss and not having to worry about lennie. While walking to the ranch after they stop by the river before reaching the ranch. Lennie ask George to tell him his favorite story. The one where they have their own ranch and lennie gets to tend the rabbits. George says, “‘OK someday we're gonna get the jack together and we're gonna have a little horse and a couple of acres an a cow and some pigs and will have a big vegetable patch and a rabbit and chickens. And when it rains in the winter we'll just say the hell with going to work, and well build up a big fire in the stove and set around and listen to the rain coming down on the roof’”(Steinbeck 14). What Georges says infers that he wants to be his own boss and decides when he wants to go to work and live comfortably. Later on after gets into trouble on the ranch, George decides it’s time to turn Lennie in. George tells Candy in the barn, “‘I think I knowed from the very first time we’d never do her,”’(94). George knows he has to disregard the dream he had after Lennie gets in trouble yet again. George decides it would be best to turn Lennie