A Hope of a Progressive and Bright Future

A Hope of a Progressive and Bright Future

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When People hear American Dream they get an idea of owning their own land, and self employment. The American Dream was a hope of a progressive and bright future, especially from the experience of the Great Depression. In John Steinbeck's novel, Of Mice and Men, contains disappointment and unachieved dreams. There are five characters the reader is introduced to throughout the novel, they all have dreams that come so close to achieving but reality interferes and ruins all the hard work.

George and Lennie have a dream that is continually talked about from the beginning of the novel to the end of the novel. "O.K. Someday- were gonna get the jack together and we're gonna have a little house and a couple of acres an' a and some pigs and we'll have a big vegetable patch and rabbit hutch and chickens. And when it rains in the winter, we'll just say 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" (14) Lennie is the most dedicated to the dream, George supports him through the whole novel. Later on in the story Candy the handicapped swamper hears about Lennie and George's dream. Candy wants to be included in their dream because he doesn't want to be alone. "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" (59). Crooks dream is to be equal.."Caus' i'm black. They playcards in there, but I can't play because I'm black" (68). Because he is black, he is treated differently then others because of there racist attitudes. Crooks must not go in the bunkhouse so he has to sleep in the harness room. He is also abused by the boss of the ranch whenever the boss gets angry. Crooks dreams that he can be treated the same as everyone else, so he does not have to sleep in the harness room instead of the bunkhouse or by abused by another manCurley’s wife’s dream is to become a famous Hollywood...

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