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Examples Of Dream In Of Mice And Men

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Throughout our lives, we have been planted with a saying that nothing is impossible and we are often told to dream big. On the contrary, what we are really supposed to do is dream big and realistically, as dreaming big alone may not lead our dreams to come true. John Steinback raises this phenomenon in his Great Depression era novel. Set in the 1930s, Of Mice and Men is a tale about two men, George and Lennie who are work immigrants in California. They flee from one ranch to another, trying to make their dream of having a farm of their own come true yet have it shattered in the end. In the novel, Steinback illustrates several characters who dream of another life beyond their current ones only to have them stay as a dream until the end.
The dream of owning a farm to himself with his friend Lennie, who particularly gets to tend the rabbits is what makes George live through every day. The dream is illustrated as:
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 and—” “An’ live off the fatta the …show more content…

Old Candy overhears George and Lennie’s conversation about their dreamland farm and asks to join them. George finally lets Candy join in on their dream of living off the fatta land after Candy offers to contribute his savings. Now also becoming Candy’s dream, Candy is deeply disappointed when he learns that the dream will forever be a dream after Lennie killed Curley’s wife. Unable to accept the reality, Candy expresses his disappointment by blaming Curley’s wife. He lets out his anger as he says, ““you God damn tramp”…“You done it, di’n’t you? I s’pose you’re glad. Ever’body knowed you’d mess things up. … “I could of hoed in the garden and washed dishes for them guys.” (47). On the other hand, Candy is not the only character that has to painfully deal with the failure of attaining their

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