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…
like race, Lennie, working for money, running from danger or the past, etc. All these obstacles oppose a threat to George’s big dream of having a home in the plains all to himself. George’s dream is one of the dreams that is brought up the most in the text and movie. But, along the path of the story there are many more. Some of these dreams are mostly Lennie’s, in the text and movie Lennie by far is the biggest dreamer.
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…
beans.” While we focus on Lennie’s dreams, there were many more.
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
dreams. George, Lennie’s “owner/leader” first came up with the dream place. An example of this in the text is “Someday-- we’re gonna get the jack together and we’re gonna have a little house and a couple of acres an’ a cow and some pigs.” This shows that George has it all planned out but another obstacle stands in his way Lennie and his troublemaking attitude. But along the way George finds some help, Candy, when he first hears about the idea he rockets out of his bed and rushes to George and says “S’pose I went in with you guys. Tha’s three hundred an’ fifty bucks i’d put in. I ain't much good, but I could cook and tend the chickens and hoe the garden some. How’d that be?” In the story and movie this rose George’s hopes, finally he felt like he was given the opportunity to get what he wanted without anyone standing in his way. Steinbeck and Sinise both use foreshadowing numerous times over the course of the story. One example of this is when George says “God a’mighty, if I was alone I could live so easy. No mess at all, and when the end of the month come I could take my fifty bucks and go into town and get whatever I want. Why, I could stay in a cat house all night. I could eat any place I want, hotel or any place, and order any damn thing I could think of. Get a gallon of whisky, or set in a pool room and play cards or shoot pool.” This is foreshadowing that all George wants to do is be alone and in the end of the story George shoots lennie and that was one of the only dreams that came true. Steinback and Sinise develop the idea of dreams with obstacles in the movie and the book. They use complex characters and develop the way that they want things. In all, you can dream all you want but if you don’t work around the obstacles and barriers you won’t get there.
She flirts with the other characters on the ranch but they pay her no attention either. This essay will go on to look at the character of Curley's wife and how characters perceive her. When first introduced to Curley's wife in the novel she comes into the bunkhouse, when both Lennie and George are in there. She is apparently looking for Curly but she already knows that new men have arrived.
Everyone dreams about something. However, it is important to know when the right time to dream is, and when to wake up. A major theme that Steinbeck conveys in the book Of Mice and Men is the pursuit of the American Dream. The book tells the story of two men trying to earn a better life. Their American Dream was to get their own place somewhere and live together. Although, through the characterization of Lennie, the symbolism of rabbits, and the setting of the book, Steinbeck is trying to convey that people cannot continue to live in a dream.
Curley's wife's' life was portrayed as a women who liked to be around other men to try to seduce them. She was described as many things, such as a tramp and other words other than Curley's wife. None of the employees on the ranch wanted to be around her because she was described as nothing but trouble. Lennie was the only one who showed her attention, but that ended badly.
In today’s society, one does not consider how one person’s dream can affect others. In the story Of Mice And Men written by John Steinback, two men search for a job that will secure their ambitions, but find out that “The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men” can result in “nought but grief and pain.” One of the two men, Lennie, acts as a burden with his child-like personality, is dangerous because of his lack of intelligence combined with prodigious strength, and spreads hope to others with his innocence.
The theme that John Steinbeck amits from the novel Of Mice and Men is not everyone’s american dream can come true because one wants it to. This alludes to a famous poem by Robert Burns called “To a Mouse”. The theme of this poem is the greatest schemes of mice and men often go astray. Meaning that things do not always go as one plans it to. The novel is set in the Great Depression (1929-1939) in Southern California (near Soledad). Characters in the novel such as George and Crooks have obstacles that hold them back from achieving their own american dreams. George is held back from his by having to care of Lennie, who cannot take care of himself. Crooks is held back from his american dream because of his skin color.
Curley’s 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.
In Of Mice and Men, it seems an incontrovertible law of nature that dreams should go unfulfilled. From George and Lennie’s ranch to Curley’s wife’s stardom, the characters’ most cherished aspirations repeatedly fail to materialize. However, the fact that they do dream—often long after the possibility of realizing those dreams has vanished—suggests that dreaming serves a purpose in their lives. What the characters ultimately fail to see is that, in Steinbeck’s harsh world, dreams are not only a source of happiness but a source of misery as well.
The American Dream is a dream that everyone imagines to be picture perfect. The American Dream means having freedom, equality and opportunity’s to achieve the dream that you conceptualize to be right by you. In the novel, Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck did not want to just illustrate the American dream as being easy, but he wanted to point out the American Dream as being difficult too. Steinbeck made a work of art by composing a great novel to make the reader understand that life can be difficult and at times dreams are hard to achieve. Of Mice and Men was written and based on the settings of the Great Depression (Anderson). The Great Depression was a very dire time that left multiple of people despondent and the unavailing to move on with their lives. The Great Depression created a world where everyone had to seek and survive for themselves. In the novel Steinbeck wanted to explore and point out how powerless people where during the time of the Great Depression. Steinbeck purposely incorporated his characters to depict the life struggle of what people go through during grim times. In the novel, Steinbeck illustrated a great set of characters Lennie, George, Candy and Crooks. In Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck discusses handicaps, hardships, and friendships of the characters.
To begin, Lennie has this big dream of George and him living on their own land, being their own bosses, and tending to his own rabbits. Lennie’s major obstacle in achieving his dream is that he is slower than most people for his age. Lennie acts like a child making George the responsible adult. Lennie also listens to whatever George says because Lennie looks up to George almost like he is his brother. Lennie also has a tendency to forget what he is told:
Martin Luther King's' speech "I have a dream" showed that no matter race, beliefs or gender, people can improve their destiny. Through determination, Martin Luther King and his followers managed to make the American dream more attainable for millions of black Americans. The American dream consists of having equal access to opportunities for economic prosperity through hard work. This belief was incredibly important, during the novel's times Of Mice and Men, as farmers abandoned their land, due to natural disasters in the dust bowl, and moved to California to pursue their dream. This also affects the characters Crooks, Curley's wife and George. In his novel, John Steinbeck
Everyone has an American dream, a belief that represents anyone can carry out a higher quality life through hard labor, and finding happiness at the end. These people work their lives to fulfill a dream that seems impossible, but in the end they either succeed or fail. Despite the odds, people still dive into this idea not knowing how it will end. By taking risks in life, they have a higher chance of achieving this dream of theirs. It ultimately shapes their character and spirit. Stopping at no extent, they make sacrifices to meet their main goal. This dream is put to the test in Steinbeck’s novella, Of Mice and Men, which takes place during the Great Depression causing George and Lennie, mentally disabled friend, to have a hopeless American dream. Their dream ultimately shapes their character and spirit, inspiring them to achieving this dream, but others dreams are crushed due to the Great Depression; similarly Steinbeck suggests that the American dream is unattainable due to the time setting, Great Depression.
“All our dreams can come true if we have the courage and to pursue them.”-Walt Disney. We often persevere to achieve our goals but are held back by the slightest of things. Sometimes there is a minor setback that causes your dream to shatter and forces you to do something that you will regret. Steinbeck disrupts many characters’ dreams that all relate to the American Dream of the idea of having an equal opportunity to achieve your goals and prosper through your hard work and determination. Dreams can give you false hope and be destroyed easily, such as the dreams of Curley’s wife, George’s & Lennie’s, and Crooks’ in John Steinbeck’s novel, Of Mice and Men.
What is the role of dreams in John Steinbeck’s novella ‘Of Mice and Men’ In John Steinbeck’s novella, ‘Of Mice and Men,’ the role of dreams plays a very important part. The book was written during the ‘Great Depression,’ which occurred just after the well known ‘Wall Street Crash.’ The book Of Mice and Men was set in the depression of the 1930’s in California in a place called Soledad. Men travelled around looking for any work they could find, they had to leave families and their homes just to make money. Even firms and companies went bankrupt; these were depressing and desperate times, with no hope and definitely no future.
Throughout the book there are four main dreams, which the characters have in ‘Of Mice and Men’. Firstly George and Lennie’s dream about owning their own land. This progresses when Candy makes the dream more realistic. Curley’s dream was about wanting himself to be physically bigger and to gain peoples respect. Curley’s wife’s dream was to go to Hollywood and be a big time actress.
In the novella Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, Steinbeck illustrates the dreams of George,Lennie, and other characters and how these dreams are unrealistic and unattainable .Their dreams were the reason that these characters kept moving forward but because of difficult circumstances the dreams of George,Lennie,Candy and Curley's wife are shattered , they knew that their dream was never really attainable but they still had hope but because they were so greatly impacted by Lennies actions their dreams are never accomplished.