Comparing The American Dream In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

Propaganda filters throughout the world to lean people’s views one way or another. In Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, he uses George and Lennie, Crooks, and Curley’s wife to demonstrate the American Dream. This is unattainable but is their motivation to carry on their daily on the ranch lives. George and Lennie’s actions revolve around their American Dream. In a conversation between George and Lennie they discuss their dream, George states “... 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” (Steinbeck, 14). George says this to Lennie to motivate him to keep quiet and out of trouble so they can eventually reach these dreams. The American Dream can be defined as people

It is the natural inclination of all men and women to dream. In John Steinbeck’s novel “Of Mice and Men,” the American dream is sought after by many different characters. However, the main theme in the story is how these dreams are unattainable, and how because of the Great Depression, all American dreams were dead. But what is the American dream? A unitary definition does not exist, however, the meaning of living the American dream is something that differs for everyone. For some people, the American dream might be acceptance and equality. On the other hand, for others, it might mean fame and fortune. In the short story called “Of Mice and Men” the American dream seems unreachable for a number of characters, such as George, Lennie,

Do you have a dream so big it seemed impossible to achieve? There are many examples of how the American dream is just a dream. In the novel Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck demonstrates that dreams can come true. In the novel the author shows Lennie's actions and how he reacts to the dream. He also demonstrates the dream and how George and Lennie are going to achieve the dream. Also, Curley's wife and the Stable Buck, Crooks, get caught up in George and Lennie's dream.

As a result certain character had Americaine dream that they wanted to achieve from wanting to be a movie star and be in the big pictures in hollywood, curley’s wife didn’t fulfill her dream because she married a ranch worker so she had no choice, Lennie also wanting to tend rabbits so badly that if he got in trouble he would be sad and think that George wouldn’t let him tend the rabbits anymore and George and Lennie’s dream of owning their own ranch that dream might be hard to achieve after the death of Lennie. The author of mice men tells us the American dream of certain characters in the novel to achieve their own dream. Steinbeck shows in the novel that even if you dream about the American dream you're not going to achieve it. In conclusion

In John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, the American Dream is not attainable for everyone, which is conveyed by Curley’s wife, Candy, and George. First, one example of a character who was unable to achieve their dream is Curley’s wife. She tells Lennie, “I don’t like Curley” and she explains to him that she “Coulda’ been in the movies and had nice clothes…” (Steinbeck 89). This implies that Curley’s wife wanted to be an actress, and had an opportunity, but ended up losing it, leaving her to settle with Curley and become a wife. This has left her feeling lonely and isolated on the ranch. Next, another character who lost their ability to achieve their American Dream was Candy. Candy says, “S’pose I went with you guys. Tha’s three hundred bucks I’d

When you think of a dream you probably think of something that you want or something you strive to achieve and usually as long as you work hard it is doable. In this case we're talking about the American Dream. Our class for the past couple weeks has been focusing on this idea to see if it was really what everyone thought it was. We have talked about books,articles, and songs that give an outline of the American Dream, also we have been talking about several topics that relate to the American Dream including American Exceptionalism, Feminism, Marx Criticism and many more.

In the novel of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck uses character actions and the impact of dreams on those actions to develop the theme of the American dream. The developing of the theme is through the ongoing dreams of the characters. Even through the story when the dreams become an impossibility; the dreams continue to give hope and a way to a brighter future. The hope keeps the dream alive along with the will of the characters to pursue that dream. Overall, their dreams impact their actions and lead to the theme of the American dream being created.

We live in an age where many of us don't realize that the American dream is falsely promoted. It Is painfully clear that it was destined to fail from the very start. The American Dream is a flawed system in which is unattainable for a majority Americans due to the lack of education, work ethic, and the amount of disabilities First of all, it is worth considering that education is essential to achieving the American dream. Without it there is a lower chance of getting a higher paying job; especially if you are born into a poor family. Education is a determining factor in the manor of achievement.

“With us it ain’t like that. We got a future(15).” George and Lennie is set on the idea to own that he even knows of some land that he thinks they could buy. George and Lennie travel from town to town, trying to achieve their goal. It is an dream that they will always be working for. In this time period, many migrants travel to earn a living like George and Lennie. Steinbeck's showed how hard is it to achieve the American Dream for many Americans, especially during the time period of the Great Depression. In the novella Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck crafts the theme of Dreams by using it through different aspects of the story, that a lot of people have a dream but, failed to achieve it.

John Steinbeck was a well known author in the U.S . His most famous book was Of Mice and Men. Most of his books took place in the Salinas River Valley, California during the Great Depression. Steinbeck didn’t believe in the American dream which is the idea that if you work hard enough your dream will come true. John Steinbeck uses George, Curley’s wife and Crooks to show the failure of the American dream.

An American Dream, what is it? Everyone has dreams,to achieve something great; but do you think you could really even go through with it? The book Of Mice and men by John Steinbeck shows how the American Dream is not attainable he shows that even your most precious dreams for your future can’t be achieved. Throughout the novel Steinbeck does not support the American Dream, as it is shown in a series of events throughout the novel. In the novel it shows that it can’t be achieved in three ways; first Crooks dream comes to an end when Curley’s wife puts him into his place, second Curley’s wife dreams come to an end when she gets killed, and lastly the dream of Lennie and George living on the farm comes to an end when George makes the decision

Lennie and George are two men who have high hopes of the perfect “American dream. Yet, Lennie keeps doing “bad things” thats stopping them from achieving their dreams. The American dream the men are trying to achieve is they would like to own a farm with rabbits, cows, chickens, a house, and most importantly them being together. I do not believe the dream is achievable, because Lennie doesn’t understand right from wrong in many of the situations throughout the book.

George and Lennie wish to own a piece of land and call it their own. They dream that the only thing they need is the land itself and nothing more. This becomes a reoccurring pattern within the story. Lennie and George build up their dream to such an extent that when they have enough to buy a piece of land, their lives would never live up to the wonderful envision in their heads. They strive for the impossible and this is the author’s way of showing how hard it is pursue the American Dream. While not too long ago many Americans could work hard and earn a living, Lennie and George are a strong representation of how things have changed. Although Lennie and George worked hard for what they had they never had enough to buy land and call it their

America has been dubbed the Land of Opportunity because of the idea that anything can be done here. This idea is called the American Dream. It is an endlessly changing idea, but always means the same thing in any daydreamer’s mind: happiness. It is an idea which everyone does anything possible to achieve. The characters of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men exhibit this basic principle of the American Dream in strikingly similar ways. Each novel shows the double edged sword of the American dream, the pursuit of one, and also the demise of it.

The American Dream started off as propaganda in order to make the American people of the early twentieth century work harder to build a successful economy. The idea of the American Dream is that every American citizen has an equal opportunity of making money along with owning a large house, some land, and having a family with kids. In Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck illustrates that the American Dream, no matter how simple is impossible to achieve. As everyone has their own interpretation of the American Dream, Steinbeck uses George and Lennie, Crooks, and Curley’s Wife to demonstrate how the American Dream is impossible to achieve and how important the dream was for people so they could carry on with their lives.