The Importance Of Dreams In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

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Of mice and men Do you wish a different life, or do you like it the way it is now? In the novel “Of Mice and Men” by John Steinbeck, most of the characters admit to dreaming of a different life. The main two characters in this novel are George and Lennie and they’ve been always dreaming of buying a piece of land, farming it, and growing some animals. When they arrive to the ranch, they work with some of the other characters, under the boss. The other characters have other dreams too, just like George and Lennie. The author John Steinbeck expresses the universal idea that most people dream of a different life to achieve happiness. First of all, the idea that most people dream of a different life is proven from George and Lennie’s dream of owning a farm. Before arriving to the ranch, George and Lennie talk about their dream and they say, “We’ll have a big vegetable patch and a rabbit hutch and chickens. And when it rains in the winter, we’ll just say the hell with goin’ to work, and we’ll build up a fire in the stove and set around it an’ listen to the rain comin’ down on the roof“ (14,15). George and Lennie want to own a farm, which would offer them protection and happiness. They just wish a little bit of land, animals and their own…show more content…
She says to Lennie, “Come there when I was a kid. Well, a show come through, an’ I met one of the actors. He says I could go with that show. But my ol’ lady wouldn’t let me. She says because I was on’y fifteen. But the guy says I coulda. If I’d went, I wouldn’t be livin’ like this, you bet” (88). Curley’s wife wanted to be a Hollywood actress when she was young. She wishes and imagines how fabulous it would be to have fans, to have beautiful clothes and to stay in luxury hotels. Attention is also part of her dream because in the novel, Curley’s wife admits her

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