Though the pet was once a great sheepherder, it was put out to pasture once it stopped being productive. Candy realizes that his fate is to be put on the roadside as soon as he’s no longer useful; on the ranch, he won’t be treated any differently than his dog. Worse than the dog parallel, though, is that Candy (unlike his dog) is emotionally broken by this whole affair. He can’t bring himself to shoot his pet himself, and we suspect this is going to be the same fear and reticence that keep him from making anything more of his life. Candy can’t stand up for his pet because Candy can’t stand up for himself.
Lennie's death, caused in part by Curley's wife, deeply affected George. Without Lennie, George's dream no longer existed. He could not pursue it alone. Lennie had a childlike sense of hope in the dream, and this kept the dream alive. He was an essential part of the dream.
All of the Characters in the novella have an American dream; they all want to make successes of themselves. George and Lennie have a dream to work on their own farm and "live off the fatta the land”, meaning be reliant on no-one else to make their daily living. This was the dreams of many ranch workers at the time, and Steinbeck explores George and Lennie’s futile journey attempting to achieve it. Slim very likely has a dream; however he is the only character realistic enough to realize that dreams are just a fantasy. In addition to this, as he is a respected figure on the ranch, he feels no need to vocalize a dream.
Men and women seek hope in his or her lives in order to make something of themselves useful, but they cannot find it because of the fact that they are too isolated by his or her surroundings. In the novel Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck illustrates Lennie’s friend, George, as a person who has a bit of hope, but is worried that his “partner” is going to ruins his life once again like at the time they were at Weed. George is often characterized as a person who has to take care of Lennie because he knows that the only person that could ever make things go wrong is Lennie. “Am I My Brother’s Keeper” specifically represents George because it shows that even though he has little hope on his side, he has to take of one’s life, and that is Lennie Small. When George has hope on his side, he says, “We’ll have a big vegetable patch and a rabbit hutch and chickens.
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
American Dream The novel ‘Of Mice and Men’ write by Steinbeck. John Steinbeck tells a story about workers have American dream in the ranch. Many people have beautiful dreams in their life. However, no one really get it, no one get good life at that time period. He tries to show the American dream is impossible and illusory at that time period.
Another character is Curley's wife who is very lonely. Steinbeck shows lonliness by showing her only women on the ranch. She is lonely because at that time author is writing ,women were used to stay at home and not allowed to go out. She always flirts with the male workers of the ranch to seek attention.She always try to talk to somebody but no one is ready to talk to her. For evidence she said to Lennie,"I never get to talk to nobody.
She compares Bailey’s wife face to a cabbage and criticizes her for not traveling to a place that allows the children to “be broad” (pg 265). The grandmother is an old fashioned lady. “In my time, children were more respectful of their native states and their parent and everything else “(pg266). The grandmother did not like the way the children acted and that is why she wanted to take them to east Tennessee . She did not want them to go to Florida and enjoy themselves.
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.
Dreams: Does the farm mean the same thing to Lennie as it does to George? What does it mean to each of them? “Does the farm mean the same thing to Lennie as it does to George?” In my opinion, the farm does not mean the same thing to them. The reason is because their concepts and visions of the farm are totally different to one another. It is evident that all Lennie dreams about are the animals that they are going to have, particularly the rabbits.