Dreams In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

Very often, people leave behind their dreams for more practical solutions to dismal situations. In Steinbeck's novel Of Mice and Men, dreams often serve the purpose of giving characters new opportunities. Dreams are also typically unattainable, yet characters in the novel spend much of their time trying to achieve them. Because the Depression era was so destitute, Lennie and George’s dream is a positive distraction from their seemingly hopeless situation. These reasons expose a deeper, more tragic truth of the era. Lennie and George's dream affirms that dreams are often unattainable distractions from real life.

Dreams in Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck A dream can be described as an ambition or the aspiration to reach a goal in life. In the novel "Of Mice and Men" John Steinbeck creates characters to have an optimistic dream. These dreams are ones which they would all like to make a reality. They all have a longing and desire to fulfil their dreams.

In Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck teaches us that in a culture of exploitation, dreams are never realized. All the major characters in Of Mice and Men have bigger dreams beyond their current life that get crushed. Curley’s wife had dreams of becoming a movie star, but got stopped from going to Hollywood by her mother, and finally, Lenny. Curley had dreams of marrying a nice woman, but his wife’s flirtation caused its downfall. Candy had dreams of leaving his farm for George and Lennie’s future land, but got cut short by Lennie’s death.

Have you ever had a dream? “All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them” - Walt Disney. The story of mice and men had many dreamers from owning a farm to being in the movies, to even just getting someone to talk to. In the story we find the lost dream of Curley's wife and how unhappy she is living. we also find out about George’s and Lennie’s dream that gives them reason to live and work as they do. One last thing we hear is how draw in people are to George and Lennie’s dream. These dreams are the push they need to keep going.

Hopes and dreams can be very important for peoples’ needs and survival. In Steinbeck’s story, Of Mice and Men, each of the main characters is driven by their hopes and dreams; it provides a sense of motivation and animation to each of their being. From Lennie and George being driven by their hopes and dreams of owning a farm, to Curley’s wife’s dreams of becoming an actress, having dreams plays an essential role in giving hope to the characters of Steinbeck’s story. Although dreams and hopes are essential themes in Steinbeck’s story, in a sense, Steinbeck does seem to emphasize that dreams are not meant to be achieved, and that there are other factors that are essential for survival. I believe Steinbeck included their dreams to give

Many people have dreams. Some of them achieve these dreams while others give up on them for various reasons. In the book “Of Mice and Men”, by John Steinbeck, George, Lennie have a dream of owning their own ranch their dreams were crushed because: Lennie doesn't know how to stop using his strength, lennie killed Curley's wife, and the incident in weed. In John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, George and Lennie hope to achieve their dream of owning a ranch by working together with Candy, but their dream is completely destroyed when Lennie accidentally kills Curley’s wife.

In Of Mice and Men, the hopes and dreams of the men on the ranch are a continuous focus and theme throughout the novel. John Steinbeck portrays the effects that dreams, or lack of them, have on the lives of the characters and the outcome of the novel. Steinbeck uses the concept of dreams at once to show hope and aspiration, as they invoke companionship with united determination for a better future, and to illustrate the difficulties of survival, with unrealised dreams illuminating the dark despair of society at that time.

Steinbeck write about the dream to give trust in a miserable society while the dream may never be achieved , Of Mice and Men advise that with the end goal life should be full and important, it must contain dreams. George and Lennie never achieved their dream, however, the dream holds their wonderful relationship together. The dream gives them live,

As George finds Lennie, the rabbit, and dream, disappear because of George and Lennie’s actions. The failure of the American dream is also shown through Curley’s wife. She wanted to be a star, but her mother would not let her so she married Curley to get away from her. Her dreams were destroyed before they even began. Each character in the book has their own American dream, whether it is shared with someone or not. Just like Lennie and George’s dream and Curley’s wife’s dream, all of the others’ dreams fail too. The failure of the American dream is shown through a variety of dreams and multiple failures to achieve

There dream is important to them because they would be by themselves without any new people, which would make life a lot easier for them since George is afraid that Lennie will make a big mistake meeting new people and get hurt, but if they lived only with themselves they would no longer have that

Many people have dreams. They have the motivation to achieve that dream, however sometimes there are conflicts that do not make that possible. Of Mice and Men took place in the 1930’s where depression has taken a toll on most Americans. While going through these hard times, they would often dream of a better life. People would have their own definition of the American dream. In the story, there are three characters, Curley’s wife, Lennie, and George, that had dreamt of a better life and what the American dream had meant to them. They did have the motivation to achieve the dream, but they were not able to or had lost the motivation.

In Of Mice and Men it is human desire to create and seek dreams. First, George and Lennie create and seek dreams by owning their own land, growing crops, having animals, and being able to live off of the land. This dream propels them to stay and earn money so they can achieve their dream. Second, Curley's wife creates and seeks her dream of having attention and companionship.

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

What is the importance of dreams in Of Mice and Men? What role do they play in people’s lives? How do people use dreams, and how to various characters’ dreams affect them?

     Curly’s wife’s dream was clearly presented in the novel. She wanted to be in the movies. Curly’s wife had no name. She was always referred to as Curly’s wife. She had no identity and just until the end of the story, the reader knew very little about her. She tells Lennie that her dream was to be a famous movie star. She was a very pretty woman and that dream almost seemed probable, but she was born poor so basically reality told her that she was to just be a wife and do housework or work on a farm. One day “a show come through here and I met one of the actors, and he told me I could be with that show.”(88) He was obviously lying to her and just had told her that stuff so that he might have a chance to have sex with her. She naively waited for the letter but it never came. Instead, she just married curly, a man she didn’t love. She was a very unhappy woman and her dreams could never have come true because she was poor and uneducated.