Everyone in the world has a dream, some dreams are able to be fulfilled and others are not. In Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck uses pain, suffering, and loneliness to show how people use dreams to get through hard times. Dreams can seem ridiculous to people at certain moments in time, but when people go through things, all they can do is hope and think about the best. A short stature man, George Milton, has a dream of buying land and thriving off it. George must take care of a mentally challenged friend, Lennie.
George and Lennie represent the former group, for whom we can feel sympathy, while Curley is a character with whom it is hard to sympathize. The writer presents Lennie as large and strong, but mentally slow, while his guardian George is physically less capable but mentally much brighter. As soon as we hear that they are constantly having to travel the country for work, because of Lennie’s past mishaps, we feel sorry for them. We sympathize with Lennie, because what happened in Weed, for example, was not really his fault; and we feel sorry for George because he has to cope with the responsibility, if not the burden, of trying to find a way for them both to survive and to stay out of further trouble. Steinbeck invites the reader’s sympathy, in the scene where they camp overnight before going to the ranch.
Of Mice and Men was an awe inspiring book about a couple of men just trying to get by in the Great Depression. George and Lennie had known each other for a very long time and had grown to depend on each other. Throughout the book Lennie asked George to tell him about them, about they were going to get a place and live together; they never got to do that, as life would have, reality go in the way. The most controversial from this book was why George killed Lennie. It was the right thing to do for multiple reasons, the first being that Lennie was a danger to those around him as well as himself.
In contrast, though Troy had major social issues, he dealt with adversity quite well. Once his lover became pregnant, he was man enough to go to his wife and come clean. When he and his father fell out, he wasted no time in transforming from a 14year old to a man. The tone of this story may vary, depending on the reader. As an African American, I found the tail dark and gloomy, with potential to worsen as the story unfolded.
The book Of Mice and Men written by John Steinback shows the struggle in the 1930’s. It tells how people are lonely and how they need a companion. The book and movie both show how reality was hard on lower class people. The book and movie are both portrayed marvelously. The casting crew from Of Mice and Men is chosen wisely they all portray each character perfectly.
It was the only reason why the characters were doing what they were doing. They were not only working to earn a living, but they were working towards that impossible American Dream. Throughout the novel, Steinbeck repeatedly presents the impossibility of reaching one’s Kitt 2 American dream; however, both the characters and the readers attempt to omit the obvious truth about the American Dream because it is indeed the only thing they continue to live for. For George, it takes the death of his best friend for him to realize that he will never achieve his American Dream. It is quite obvious that not only George came to a realization about life after the tragic events in the novel, but so did every other character.
People on the farm discriminate against Lennie. First of all, George always wants to live alone. If he does so, his life will be easier. For example, George is Lennie’s best friend. They travel together, Lennie has trouble in Weed.
We learn George is the brain of the operation, and Lennie is simple-minded but sincere. We also get good amount of foreshadowing: we learn that the men have left their hometown because of the strange incident of Lennie touching a girl’s dress. Before they’ve even gotten to the ranch, George warns Lennie that if anything bad happens, they’re to meet in this grove. Perhaps the most important function of this "initial situation" is to explain that the men are in search of money for one big reason; they’ve got a dream of owning a little place of their own. As George tells Lennie the well-worn story of the place they’ll have, we realize this relationship goes both ways.
Biff has learned or at least acknowledged the truth about his own life and his father’s life. He learns that he is nothing and no one but may be someone one someday. Throughout the play Biff has adored Willy; he believed his father’s stories and accepted his father’s philosophy which was that a person will be successful if he is “well-liked”. Biff was taught to do whatever it took to be successful even stealing and cheating. Prior to his trip to Boston everything changed he saw that his dad was a fake which meant that Biff was also a fake too.
In ‘Of Mice and Men’, Lennie is the character we have the most pity for. Do you agree? The book ‘Of Mice and Men’ by John Steinbeck is a story of two men both of whom have lead very difficult lives. At first the reader is captured by the simple mindedness of Lennie Small, a character who is portrayed as a big, friendly giant, but later it becomes clear that it is others who are baring the consequences of his poor decisions and then the readers pity directed towards them. George has to put up with Lennie and then kill his best friend, Curley’s wife faces discrimination and even her kindness towards Lennie leads to her death.