Of Mice And Men American Dream Analysis

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The Struggle of the American Dream Characters are often used as plot foils for the American Dream. John Steinbeck’s novel Of Mice and Men is about different characters’ attempting to achieve their American Dream. It is 1940 in California and the character’s George, Lennie, Crooks, and Curley’s wife are trying to achieve their own American dream. The American dream is different for everybody, not everyone can accomplish it as easy as some because there may be something in the way, however they should not stop trying if they ever will succeed. George “a small quick, dark of face, with restless eyes and sharp strong features” (Steinbeck 2) has an American dream to basically own his own farm with Lennie. They want a place with a “big vegetable…show more content…
As Lennie says “An’ live off the fatta the lan, An have rabbits.”(Steinbeck 14) Lennie’s dream is a difficult dream to accomplish because he’s not the brightest guy. He doesn’t really get treated like he should be because he is different. Lennie has a mental disability. He was close to achieving his dream but he killed curleys wife. Killing Curleys wife was one of the reasons he didn’t get to live his dream it was because he also died at the of the…show more content…
John Steinbeck’s novel Of Mice and Men is about different characters’ attempting to achieve their American Dream and none of them in this story achieve it. The American dream may be similar for some people but completely different for others. Yes there are some people that achieve it and live happy for the rest of their lives, but there are some people that work harder than most people but still can’t accomplish their dream. From rags to riches some may still not have what they want. In this novel John Steinbeck did show how hard it was for all different type of people to achieve their American dream no matter how rich or how poor they were, no matter how smart they were, or no matter what color they

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