Obstacles In Of Mice And Men

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Dreams, we all have them and we all wish they would come true, but there are obstacles and sacrifices we have to take along the way. In the book Of Mice and Men dreams are brought up occasionally, and they are mostly dreams that will never come true. These dreams are not only affected by race but mental and economic state too. The dreams that are shown in the movie are drawn off of the book but build a bigger understanding at the same time. But with a little help along the way these dreams were thought to have come true, but in the end they were shattered. During the text and the movie, both Steinbeck and Sinise bring up dreams and they try to establish how dreams can have obstacles and barriers. These barriers and obstacles include many things …show more content…

For instance, in the movie when george and Lennie were about to get to the ranch Lennie says “tell em how it's gonna be George, go on”, over the whole story Lennie says this many times and in the film we can tell the Lennie knows the story word for word when George is telling it. Lennie also can’t ever stop talking about how he's “gonna tend them rabbits” in the story every time he has a conversation with george he always ends up talking about the rabbits he's going to tend. In the movie we could infer that Lennie always wants something in his hands if it’s a girl's hair or dress, a puppy, a mouse, or a rabbit. This is showing that Lennie wants to be spoiled and that’s another one of his dreams is to have everything even “ketchup with his …show more content…

Curley’s wife, in the story her and crooks will probably be the most unsuccessful dreamers because of their roles in society, this is establishing the idea of obstacles and dreams. Curley’s wife at some points will become so lonely that she dreams for someone to talk to and when she gets the chance in the story we find out she had many more dreams. For example, in the text Curley’s wife says “Nother time I met a guy, and he was in pitchers. Went out to the Riverside Dance Palace with him. He says he was gonna put me in the movies. Says I was a natural. Soon’s he got back to Hollywood he was gonna write to me about it.” Further into the story we learn that she never got that letter, that was another obstacle that Curley’s wife had to face all to be in the movies. Unfortunately, on the ranch all the boys thought she was trouble so they would stay away until she tried to talk to lennie and ended getting her neck broken breaking all of her

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