It was a few days when George, Lennie, and I have made an arrangement to buy the land by the end of the month. I’m finally getting out of this ranch before I’m not of use anymore and they decide to can an old man like me. I already have most of the money for the land and now we need to work up a few more hundreds by the end of the month to get our land. Everyone was in town on this Saturday night and I went in search for Lennie to tell him about the rabbits. I came upon the negro stable buck’s room, Crooks. He invited me in, strange, because I didn’t think he likes to have visitors. Lennie pops up reminding why I was here in the first place, the rabbits. I told him we could make some money on the rabbits if we do it right, of course, Lennie gets to tend them. Then Crooks suddenly interrupts us saying we’re crazy! Well I’ll show him that we’re not, because George says we can get the land and we got the money we need to hold the land until we get the rest of the money! Yet Crooks still argues on how we won’t get it because every man who dreams of getting a land gets their dreams crushed. What is this man trying to get at? Just because everyone else never got their land, doesn’t mean we won’t because we weren’t alone. I had George and Lennie to help with the money and get the land. I’ve never had land, I’ve been spending my time planting many crops …show more content…
and they weren’t even for me! That’s going to change once George, Lennie, and I go get our land and we can do whatever we want. We can have a room to ourselves, some rabbits, chickens, and a dog. I was extremely angry at the negro stable buck when a familiar voice called out asking for Curley. I sourly told her we haven’t seen him, but she still stays and then tells us she already knew where they were, then why did she even ask? Was she trying to cause trouble and waste our time? That woman already has a husband and yet she still fools around with other guys trying to cause trouble, I was tired of it, and I don’t want any trouble. For telling her to leave us alone and she wasn’t wanted, she called each one of us in frustration a nigger, a “dum-dum”, and me a lousy old sheep. I wasn’t going to let her stand there and call us all out just because we were the ones on the ranch who weren’t important and couldn’t do much.
I was sick and tired of her thinking she was so great because she is married to Curley who just happens to be the boss’s son. Though, Lennie and Crooks just sat there, and I wasn’t going to let her get away with it. I stood up and started telling her off. She wasn’t wanted here. I know that we’re not going to stay in this ranch, I know that we’re going to live on a nice land all to ourselves. I tried to contain myself as she said “baloney”, I have had enough, I told her to
leave. She started to question Lennie’s bruises on his face, poor guy panicked and just told her that her husband’s hand got caught in a machine. I told her to leave Lennie alone, when Crooks jumped up and told her that she had no right to go into a colored man’s room and that he will tell the boss not to let her in anymore. That didn’t scare her, she took advantage of him being a colored man and told him what she can do to him if he doesn’t quiet down. I was surprised by her horrible ways. If she were to do that, the guys and I will tell. I was sure of it, if she were to make up lies about us, we’d be sure to tell the boss and get her out of the way. I was confident about this until she told me something that made everything inside me fall; no one would listen to me. I’m an old man, it’s true no one would bother listening to me. I fell silent. Then I hear the guys coming in, I told the wife she should be going now, and she finally left. That woman was a beast thinking she can come in her and start bullying us all. She shouldn’t have said the things she told Crooks, it was real mean of her and I’m glad to be able to leave this ranch soon.
A friendship is not all they have together, Lennie and George have dreams. Lennie and George have worked up the idea of owning their own piece of land together. Lennie wants to tend the rabbits (Steinbeck 11) and George just wants to be his own boss (Steinbeck 14). The only problem with their dream is that it is unrealistic. They cannot buy land to tend and just go days without tending it because they do not want to. Like many traveling farm hands during the 1930s, George and Lennie think they could work up enough money to buy their own place and not give a “hoot” about anyone but their selves. Although their dream is unattaina...
...ng around, I realise that this is the place I belong. Working on a ranch may not be the best work but having travelled around and worked on a few, I realise that this is where my heart belongs. So here I am at the gates about to start work again for Curley. I’m not going be just any old worker, though like I was once was. Curley specifically asked me to be his deputy. I seized the chance, as I am going to make this a better place for all. I’m going to make sure that all of the guys get a fair and equal chance to do all of the jobs here on the ranch. I’m not going to allow the less intelligent ones to suffer abuse or ridicule at the hands of the others.
George and Lennie's ultimate goal is to "get the jack together," buy a few acres of land they can call their own, "an' live off the fatta the lan' (pg. 14)." George talks in great depth about how their dream house is going to have individual rooms, a kitchen with a fat iron stove, and an orchard. But, George only recites this yarn when he wants to get Lennie calmed down. Lennie has the mentality of an 8 year old, the memory of a senile 80 year old, and only desires to tend rabbits. George fully understands that Lennie can easily be manipulated. Even though the dream to have a piece of land is shared, George knows that by himself he cannot amass a large enough "stake," to buy it himself (pg. 33)." Just as the boss thought, George was "takin' his pay away from him (pg. 22)."
George was a very smart and able man who had taken responsibility of a mentally-challenged man named Lennie. George could have found a good steady job for which he could have stayed at and made good money, but when he went to work with Lennie, Lennie made a mistake that got both of them in trouble. George was a very good person for taking care of Lennie. Lennie was very dumb, but he always remembered the dream he and George shared. The main dream that George possessed was to be happy, and he realized that even though taking care of Lennie was hard work at times, he was happiest with Lennie. George would repeat their dream to Lennie. The nicest thing George ever did for Lennie was giving him hope, and that’s what mentioning the dream farm did. Lennie always wanted to “live of the fatta land” (81), and “have rabbits, and puppies, go on George.” George saved a man’s life, and in return he got nothing. George’s d...
...r say anything. So she is stuck at a ranch where all the members there avoid her because she is trouble and can’t even run away because of her being a female in the early 1900’s made it almost impossible to survive on her own. She dresses a certain way to live out the American Dream the only way she can. She doesn’t dress that way to show off her body, she wants to feel like she is living her dream. She realizes that she is good looking and she uses that to her advantage to talk to some of the people at the ranch like Lennie. The only way she got to talk to Lennie was by letting him touch her hair. Steinbeck let Curley’s Wife die in such a peaceful way; I didn’t even realize she was dead until I read over the section multiple times. He left her there in the barn describing her beauty, showing the reader through Curley’s Wife that even the worst of us have humanity.
Of Mice and Men essay on Crooks character. Of Mice and Men essay = = = =
Life for ranchers in the 1930’s was very lonely. They have no family, and they do not belong anywhere. They come to the ranch, earn their pay, go into town, waste their money, and start all over again at another ranch. They have nothing to look forward to. But George and Lennie are different; it is not like that for them because they have each other. It was George and Lennie’s dream to own a piece of land and a farm. That dream is long gone. In the story, Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck, Curley caused the death of his wife and Lennie’s death; Curley also shattered George and Lennie’s dream.
The guy’s seeing her as a tramp and a troublemaker, but all she wants is someone to talk to. Crooks, who is another lonely man, was very sad as well. Because he was black, he wasn’t allowed into the other guys bunkhouse with them because they thought he stunk. “Why ain’t you wanted to?” Lennie asked.
...the idea of the plot of land, originally opposed to the idea, saying that “Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land.”, but later coming around to the idea and offering to ‘lend a hand’. This holds significance because it shows that hope is the main pivot around which the power of dreams is centred and without collective hope from those involved with the dream, it has no influence. Crooks is not completely convinced by the dream, however, as he has endured enough hardship and had enough dreams broken to realise when a dream will not be possible as he later retracts his offer: "’Member what I said about hoein’ and doin’ odd jobs?...Well, jus’ forget it”. A parallel is therefore drawn by Steinbeck between the ability of dreams to create an illusion and the idea of hope, which is central to the American Dream and its effect on Depression Era America.
Curley’s wife represents her broken dreams of becoming an actress. Lennie and George represent a dream in progress, it is uncertain if their plans will work out as intended or plummet before takeoff, even Crooks and Candy see the appeal in Lennie and George’s fantasy and join them. The dream in progress gives hope to Lennie and George and continued to even after losing previous jobs. Curley’s wife is constantly restricted, she married Curley so that she would no longer be alone but now is in the same state as before, just on a ranch of men. She tries to talk to the other men but she is then seen as "jail bait" and avoided, making her even lonelier. Her dream of being an actress has failed because she chose a quick way out and married Curley. She is now living in her failure and has no longer a dream to aim for. Perhaps the most important part of the story is the the part in which Lennie has accidentally killed the puppy given to him by Slim, and is grieving over him in the barn, “This ain’t no bad thing like I got to go hide in the brush. Oh! no. This ain’t. I’ll tell George I foun’ it dead.” He unburied the puppy and inspected it, and he stroked it from ears to tail. He went on sorrowfully, “But he’ll know. George always knows. He’ll say, ‘You done it. Don’t try to put nothing over on me.’ An’ he’ll say, ‘Now jus’ for that you don’t get to tend no rabbits!” (Steinbeck, 85) He feels powerless to his own strength, he believes that he will never achieve his dream because of his mistake. George and the other men are out once again and the only person who comes to his emotional aid is none other than Curley’s wife. “Don’t you worry about talkin’ to me. Listen to the guys yell out there. They got four dollars bet in that tenement. None of them ain’t gonna leave till it’s over.” “If George sees me talkin’ to you he’ll give me hell,” Lennie said cautiously.” (Steinbeck, 85) He
Steinbeck inclines to unravel the plight of two migrant workers with a dream to purchase their own land in the future, where they plan to rear rabbits and keep livestock. As reality dawns on the two men, their lifestyle proves not to be as easy as they think. George states, “Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family. They don’t belong no place. They come to a ranch an’ work up a stake and then they go inta town and blow their stake, and the first thing you know they’re poundin’ their tail on some oth...
How do I get to tend the rabbits. ”(Steinbeck 14). Lennie asks George to tell him what the rabbits are going to be like on his dream ranch. Crooks, the black stable buck, was segregated from the rest of the men, so his dream is to be seen as equal to them. He doesn’t make an obvious attempt to make friends/communicate because he knows he can’t.
Candy, Lennie, and George all have the dream to own land; they discuss gathering money together to save. Lennie meets Crooks and they talk a while as they wait for George to return from town with the other workers. The pair goes through all the trials and tribulations of owning land only to be stopped by personal conflict. John Steinbeck illustrates the theme of dreams and the affection on the decisions the characters of Candy, Crooks, and Curley’s wife make in Of Mice and Men.
George and Lennie have a dream, even before they arrive at their new job on the ranch, to make enough money to live “off the fatta the land” and be their own bosses. Lennie will then be permitted to tend the rabbits. Candy, upon hearing about the dream, wants to join them so that he will not be left alone, especially after they killed his dog. From the 17th Century, when the first settlers arrived, immigrants dreamed of a better life in America. People went there to escape from persecution or poverty, and to make a new life for themselves.
George and Lennie have to continue to move around the country looking for work until Lennie screws up again. The instability of work only makes it that much harder for them to complete their dream of a farm of their own. Candy’s participation in the dream of the farm upgrades the dream into a possible reality. As the tending of rabbits comes closer to happening fate curses them with the accidental death of Curley’s wife. The end of their wishful thinking is summed up by Candy’s question on page 104, “Then-it’s all off?”