George and Lennie's dream is to buy their own land and live off it. Candy wants to live with them and the stable buck says to ask him whenever they need help. George and Lennie has this dream since they were working up in weed. Loneliness is the main theme in "Of Mice and Men." Most characters were lonely and were looking for a friend or audience. George and Lennie are committed to each other, but they are always arguing and threaten to leave. "Of Mice and Men" is a story of two ranch hands who rely on each other differences and depend on each other. lennie is the better worker by far even though he isn't so bright with an obsession to touch soft things. George knows what Lennie is capable of doing and keeps Lennie on track of their …show more content…
"As they reach a clearing Lennie stops to drink from the river," They get dropped off at the bus stop and their is a river by and Lennie goes to take a drink. They get kicked off the bus Lennie sees a river near by a sets a drink. Geroge and Lennie had a visual dream to own their own land and control their own lives. Lennie asks George to tell about their little place they are going to get and when George is telling the story Lennie interrupts about what his favorite job about tending the rabbits. Lennie likes to tell George to tell the story about the rabbits. Lennie asks George to talk about their biggest milestone so George tells what Lennie's job there is. Lennie is so motivated to George and depends on him so they can get their dream land and accomplish their greatest milestone. Other audiences might say that George and Lennie won't get their dream land because Lennie isn't so bright and George talks about how easy he can live if he wasn't responsible for Lennie. The theory is because they are both motivated and dedicated to getting their own land so they can be in charge of their and tell others what to do that are on their property. They are wrong because they have had this dream since they were working up in Weed and it would be dumb to have a dream and give up on
“The best laid schemes o’ mice and men, Gang aft agley often go wrong, And leave us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy!” Robert Burn’s quote makes us believe that even the best laid out plans for joy often go wrong and brings us grief and pain. George and Lennie’s plan was for a better future. The future where they didn’t take commands from someone; where they took care of themselves. As George and Lennie keep talking about the farm and more people joining in on the plan, it looks like it might happen. But with the foreshadowing through this quote: “Look, Lennie. I want you to look around here. You can remember this place, can’t you? The ranch is about a quarter mile up that way. Just follow the river. (15)” This quote foreshadows Lennie messing up and it creating a larger gap between the dream farm and them. When Lennie kills Curley's wife, the idea of the dream farm slowly starts to disappear. As George finds out about what had happen, he realizes that plan for a farm was just an idea, an illusion. “—I think I knowed from the very first. I think I knowed we’d never do her. He usta like to hear about it so much I got to thinking maybe we would”
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2.George strives to own a couple acres of land with animals such as pigs and chickens. Lennie strives to tend the rabbits, as he loves soft things.
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)."
Steinbeck uses foreshadowing throughout the story that hints on them not achieving their dream. Crooks one of the workers, predicts that Lennie and George will never get their own farm. Also, George looses hope and stops talking about the dream. As Crooks and Lennie discuss the plan to get a farm, crooks docent think that Georges and Lennies dream will become possible.’‘I seen hundreds of men come by on the road an’ on the ranches, …’em has a little piece of land in his head. An’ never a God damn one of ‘em ever get it…” In other words Crooks has seen many people with the same dream as George and Lennie that haven't come true. Crooks says that none of the peoples dreams come true, this foreshadows that Georges and Lennies may nit come true. As a result, The failure of dreams creates an effect creates an uncertainty that their dream will come true. Not only does Crooks think that their dream will not come true, but George lost hope in their dream too. While George and Lennie are sleeping by the water, George tells Lennie a story about what their farm would be like, but George breaks down and doesn't want to talk about it. While George and Lennie are sleeping by the water, George tells Lennie a story about what their farm would be like, but George breaks down and doesn't want to talk about it. “I aint got time for no more…” in other words, George is tired of having dreams he doesn't think he can
George and Lennie need each other to achieve their dream of their own farm with rabbits to tend. Lennie could not take care of his rabbits or even survive without George.
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?”
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George is almost certain is will happen, as he wishes for 'a little house' with a 'few acres' of land to grow their own food. This is also important as it shows that in 1930s America, the main goal was to achieve stability, to be able to rely on yourself and not be worried about getting 'canned' everyday and to live, not only survive on the bare minimum. However, even George's simple dreams seem incredibly unrealistic and Crooks sums this up the best as he says 'nobody never gets to heaven and nobody never gets no land' which shows how many people attempted to acheive the same thing, to achieve stability, however no one ever did. At the end of the novel, George's dream comes to an abrupt stop as he has to kill Lennie. These final moments show how short life in 1930s America was, and how unfair situations were. Even though Candy still offered to give George his savings, George chose the solitude life of a ranch worker as Lennie was part of his dream, and how he couldn't even seem to reconsider living the American dream without him shows the reader how much Lennie meant to him.
Loneliness and Companionship are one of the many themes that are conveyed in the novel Of Mice and Men, By John Steinbeck. Many of the characters admit to suffering from loneliness within the texts. George sets the tone for these confessions early in the novel when he reminds Lennie that the life of living on a ranch is among the loneliest of lives. However Lennie, who is mentally disabled holds the idea that living on a farm very high. "Tending the rabbits" is what Lennie calls it. Often when Lennie is seaking encouragement he askes George to tell him how its going to be. Men like George who migrate from farm to farm rarely have anyone to look to for companionship and protection. George obviously cares a lot for lennie, but is too stubborn to admit to it. The feeling of being shipped from place to place leaves George feeling alone and abandoned.
George and lennie have a strong bond and with that bond they make it through the day,Of Mice and Men is a book written by John Steinbeck is about the great depression, and the hard time that the american people faced some which has a disability. George and Lennie's relationship is strong because of what keeps them together ,the difficulties they have, and how they are different.
Just as looking after each other is important, another component of a healthy relationship is being able to make each other better people. With no surprise, George and Lennie are able to do this for each other constantly. The first way that George and Lennie make each other better people is because they have common goals between each other. George and Lennie explain to readers how their goal is to own a farm with each other. Their farm will take up an acre of land, and it will have a shack on that land that they can live in. They will own chickens, pigs, cows, and rabbits that Lennie will be able to tend. (Steinbeck 105-106)
In John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, George Milton and Lennie Smallare friends with a difficult relationship. Throughout all of the story, these two men have many difficulties, but they stay together because they are different from other people on the farm. Lennie and George have known each other since grammar school. A lot of things that happen keep the two characters together. For example, Lennie isalways getting in trouble and George is always helping him. The fact that they need each other in different ways, makes them feel like is a normal friendship. Lennie needs George because he takes care of him and keeps him out of trouble. George needs Lennie because without him he would be alone. They have problems but they always find a way to
A healthy relationship between two people requires both parties contributing toward a common goal. Effort and contribution by both individuals is necessary to maintain a mutual relationship. In the novel, Of Mice and Men, written by John Steinbeck, the two main characters, George and Lennie, have a type of father-son relationship even though they are not blood related. Lennie has a mental illness, which makes it harder for him to put effort into the relationship. George (the father figure) has to take care of himself, the relationship, and Lennie, which proves to be hard to manage. The relationship between these two, although unbalanced, is mutual, in that they both get something out of it even though it is not equally balanced.
The relationship between George and Lennie in ‘Of Mice and Men’ is one of friendship and guardianship. Steinbeck idealizes and perhaps exaggerates it their relationship. From Lennie’s perspective, George is the most important person in his life, his guardian and only friend. George, on the other hand, thinks of Lennie as a constant source of frustration. He has assumed responsibility for Lennie’s welfare and has, several times, been forced to run because of trouble Lennie has inadvertently caused. Equally they hope one day to accomplish their dream; of owning a piece of land which will be earned through their own hard work and this is their interpretation of the ‘American dream’.