The Perfect American Dream In Of Mice And Men By John Steinbeck

The reason they are running away, looking for a place to stay is because Lennie grabbed a woman’s soft dress and wouldn’t let go. They had to run away so they wouldn’t get in trouble from the incident. Lennie says, “ An’ have rabbits. Go on George! Tell me what we’re gonna have in the garden and about the rabbits in the cages about the rain in the winter and the stove, and how the cream is on the milk like you can hardly cut it” (Steinbeck 14). Lennie is explaining what their dream farm will be like. As he explains the farm, you can tell how excited he gets talking about it. As the story moves on, George makes Lennie’s dream unreachable. Steinbeck explains, “Lennie jarred, and then settled slowly forward to the sand, and he lay without quivering” (Steinbeck 106). George shoots Lennie in the back of the head because he killed Curley’s wife. Curley was mad at Lennie and wanted to kill him but as his friend, George did it so it would be less painful. Steinbeck uses Lennie to prove the failure of the American Dream.

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

In the novella Of Mice and Men, written by John Steinbeck, the struggle to achieve the American Dream; sucess, happiness and ownership of land weaves into the life of Crooks, an African American, disabled character who labors in the rural Californian ranch environment of the 1930’s. Throughout the story, Crooks struggles with the constant physical pain from his back, and emotional pain from the prevailing racism of this time period that isolates him from others. Due to his disability and race, Crooks is lonely, isolated and depressed, making it nearly impossible for him to achieve his dream.

People living during the great depression had dreams but on seemed to be the most popular but with their own twist to their dream. The American dream is in the Declaration of Independence stating “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness”. This dream is called the American Dream. The American dream is a set of standards in which freedom includes the opportunity for prosperity and success that can be achieved through hard work and determination. Steinbeck uses the American dream to give each character a goal to work toward to. Each character had their own American Dream. Owning some land so you could live independently, to tend the rabbits or to be playing cards with the other guys.

If there was a favorable circumstance under which one could endeavour all their hopes and visions, wouldn’t one pursue it? The American Dream was introduced as an interpretation to cause the people of America in the early twentieth century to work tougher. The American Dream is the opportunity to reach the goals one sets for themselves. It is about having your dream job and life one has always fantasized about. The dream is also about having freedom and equality. In the novel, “Of Mice & Men”, John Steinbeck uses symbols and motifs such as the vicious slaughtering of virtuous animals, Crooks’ rubbish bunkhouse and Lennie and George’s deception of an ideal farm to exhibit the perception that materialistic success results in happiness is a major flaw in our thinking about the American dream, and it is this thinking which makes the dream unattainable for many.

During the early years of the Great Depression, hundreds of thousands of American workers became out of work and began to travel across the country, in search of work, and the fabled American Dream. John Steinbeck’s novel, Of Mice and Men, a historical fiction piece, follows the struggles of two such American workers, on their journey through the tumultuous era of the Great Depression. However the novel’s message comes from the struggles of the two main characters, George and Lenny, and the actions they must take to overcome the obstacles in front of them. Steinbeck’s purpose for writing the novel was to express his views on the American Dream and express his experiences through the characters he creates. The messages that Steinbeck conveys through his novel are how impossible it truly is to achieve the American Dream, and how it is the nature of man to prey on the weak; this message adding to the impossibility of the American dream, men making it impossible for their fellow man to succeed.

The most important dream in this novel is that of the two main characters Lennie and George. They

For years upon years, we have heard the concept of an “American Dream” repeatedly. In school, at home, and there’s probably several who have mused about it on their own during their time by themselves. It seems that, also, several have concluded that the Dream is dead: gone, disappeared, poof into thin air. Some argue that it’s nothing but a pack of lies our predecessors were fed to believe that perhaps America had a better future lingering just around the corner, or that it’s changed much from what it was ‘back in the day’. The American Dream has remained unchanged since the Great Depression, but the nation we are today may slowly be killing it. In John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, the Dream is to have that equal opportunity for success, the same as in Bobby Jindal’s and Ellen Powell’s articles, but it seems that inequality may be killing the American Dream.

It also played a vital part in the moral of Mice and Men. The two of

not be the case for anyone else as George and Lennie were the only two

Of Mice and Men written by John Steinbeck, portrays a glimpse of the hardships many went through while living and working under the pressure of an independent life, who desired comfort, happiness, and riches through their “American Dreams”. The struggle in finding the key to a pleasurable life during “The Great Depression”, was a period of gloom, discrimination, and the beginning to a rise for dreams. Steinbeck’s supposed depiction of the serene ranch lifestyle, shows how they impacted their life as a whole, and what it led them to believe for the future. From social exclusion to the idea of marginalization, this story of the unbroken bond two friends share, describes how at times, we may not achieve what we always looked forward to, but

First and foremost is Lennie. Lennie is friends with George. He travels around with George ranch to ranch looking for jobs. Lennie has his own American dream. He dreams of tending some rabbits and to live off the fatta the land. “An’ live off the fatta the lan’,” Lennie shouted. “An’ have rabbits” (p.14). His dream is very simplistic. He dreams of growing his own food on a chunk of land he owns and to tend some rabbits that he has and not have to worry about anything else. He is very fond of this dream and is scared when he thinks George will take his dream away. “George gonna say I done a bad thing. He ain’t gonna let me tend no rabbits” (p.91). Lennie cares so much about his dream. It’s one of his prized possession. Lennie is mentally disabled and the why he acts and thinks is childish. His dream about the rabbits is no exception to this. He dreams about loving the rabbits, petting the rabbits, and looking after the rabbits just like a child would with it’s teddy

When we try to chase our dreams, we end up in our own diminutive lonely world. Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck, has taught readers that the American dream can only ever be accomplished through hard work and determination. More times than others, we are distracted by the dream itself, and don’t chase the reality, which can then lead to high expectations, and without hard determination, that can then failure. In the end, we have been lonely for so long, chasing a dream, that when reality hits us, we become isolated and lonely. For George and Lennie, they have each other, until the American dream seemed too hard to chase.

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck takes place during the Great Depression in American. These years in America’s history were especially bleak, with many citizens being unemployed and forced to travel around the country for a negligible pay. This setting is a perfect place to criticize the idea of the American Dream, an idea still trying to be comprehended today. Steinbeck describes the American Dream throughout his novel while also harshly criticizing it. Steinbeck describes the American dream through his characters.

Set during the gruelling Great Depression of the 1930’s, John Steinbeck’s touching novella Of Mice and Men focuses on the working class of America and two men, George Milton and Lennie Small, as they work on a ranch in hopes of owning their own land. Set in the dusty town of Soledad, California, Steinbeck’s classic characters offer a parable about what it means to be human. George and Lennie's ambition of owning their own ranch, and the obstacles that stand in the way of that ambition, reveal the impossibility of the American Dream, while the loneliness and isolation of the members of the ranch offer a true insight into the nature of human existence, especially when the weaknesses of the characters cause them to destroy those more