What Is The Relationship Between George And Lennie's Dream

Of Mice and Men

“You can ask the Universe for all the signs you want, but ultimately, we see what we want to see when we’re ready to see it.”

John Steinbeck's novel, Of Mice and Men, demonstrates how George and Lennie’s

friendship and shared dreams reveal moral ideas that are weaved throughout this story and present the universal truths that are grounded in the realistic contrast of friendship and shared

dreams. The commitment, loneliness, hope, and loss within George and Lennie’s friendship and

shared dreams. As all these elements are part of society.

The commitment and hope within a friendship and shared dreams support and hold it

together. George takes care of Lennie and Lennie keeps him company. They are committed in

their own

Though you can’t have one without the other. George and Lennie’s dream is all about hope. Their dream is shared equally between the both of them. Before Lennie dies he claims ...I could stay in a cat house all night. I could eat any place I want, hotel... get a gallon of whisky...",(47). On a side note, after Lennie dies he becomes like the rest of the workers. With no goal or purpose in life. Lennie was the other half of the dream and without it George couldn’t pull himself together enough to pursue it. Lose and hope have powerful impacts on everyone. When Lennie feels he lost his chance to tend to the rabbits after he kills Curley’s wife he also loses hope. He tries to run away to the bush George told him to go to when he got himself in trouble. Lennie starts making plans about going to the nearby cave and living there(50). Even when we think about what we would want if things were different more often times people change their train of thought. George often tells Lennie he is a nuisance but George confessed to Slim ”Course Lennie's a God damn nuisance most of the time," said George. "But you get used to goin' around with a guy an' you can't get rid of him(21).” Lennie’s hope of George not leaving him is in George’s hands. George is not capable of expressing his true needs because Lennie is all really

Throughout the majority of the story George and Lennie have been an exception from this concept. John Steinbeck puts them overall all his other characters. A truth in life is no matter how different you are from others you are still very much similar even though it may not be evident. When George decides what has to be done with Lennie he loses all hope in his dream even before Lennie's death he begins to feel lonely. “I’ll work my month an’ I’ll take my fifty bucks an’ I’ll stay all night in some lousy cat house...An’ then I’ll come back an’ work another month an’ I’ll have fifty bucks more(47).” George is already like most men who work “on ranches, are the loneliest in the world. They got no fambly. They don’t belong no place. They come to a ranch an’ work up a stake and then they go into town and blow their stake(8).” Even Lennie feels lonely and scared at the thought of George not coming back for him at the barn.” Maybe George come back already. Maybe I better go see(36).” When someone or something is lost that is very dear to one they feel empty and alone in the world. As if not one person in the world doesn't understand their