Every person may have a dream that seems true, but in reality it is unrealistic. In the book Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, the main characters in the story each had a dream in which they were incapable of carrying out. Taking place during the Great Depression, the men are found with loneliness. To overcome their lonesomeness, the characters find a way to amuse themselves by creating dreams. Crooks exclaims "A guy needs somebody-to be near him." He whined, "A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody." (Steinbeck 72) Numerous characters in Steinbeck's novel Of Mice and Men experienced unfulfilled hopes and dreams.
From the beginning to the end Lennie and George ride high on the thought of their dream. George explains "Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family. They don't belong no place....With us it ain't like that. We got a future. We got somebody to talk to that gives a damn about us." (Steinbeck 13-14) Not like may other farmers, Lennie and George travel together and look out for one another. Getting through their toughest times, Lennie and George always stick with each other. George shouts "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 we'll have a big vegetable patch and a rabbit hutch and chickens. And when it rains in the winter, we'll just say the hell with goin' to work, and we'll build up a fire in the stove and set around it an' listen to the rain comin' down on the roof!" (Steinbeck 14-15) George loved the thought of being his own boss and taking care of his own place. He was to much involved with his dream, that he didn't care about how hard he worked. Lennie explains to Crooks "The rabbits we're gonna get, and I get to tend' em, cut grass an' give em' water, an' like that." (Steinbeck 69) Lennie has a child- like feature that separates him from the rest of the men. For Lennie, the ideas of simply being able to pet...