But having her does more than motivate him to become successful, because she will show him a passionate vitality and liveliness in this life. When he learns that Judy’s beauty and vitality has faded and is lost, he breaks and he is disappointed. This story is about having the American Dream, and there are certain themes such as emptiness, power and money, freedom and control, and illusions that play an important role in attaining that dream. The themes that play throughout F. Scott Fitzgerald’s story also play throughout contemporary society, with immigrants who want to enter into the United States to achieve the same American Dream. One of the themes that play throughout the story is emptiness.
Firstly, dreams serve as a vital escape mechanism for the characters, to help them cope whilst living through the American Depression, where life is lonely and difficult. They are the foundations of what makes life worth living. George and Lennie’s dream means different things to both of them. ; Lennie is mainly concentrated on his childlike aspiration to ‘tend the rabbits’ due to his love of petting soft things, while the crux of the dream for George is to have ‘our own place where we belonged’ because he is desperate to work for himself and have people around him to which he belongs. George tells Lennie ‘You know all of it’, which shows the huge importance of their dream, that even forgetful Lennie has memorised it - they use their dreams as an escape from the harsh reality of life on the ranch.
John Steinbeck’s novella of Of Mice and Men and Sean Penn’s film of Into the Wild explore ideas that are similar and different to each other. Both texts have big dreams, and strive to make it reality.In contrast, Steinbeck’s novella exhibits how 2 men have the comfort of friendship and how truly important it is, while Penn’s Film finds true happiness through the rejection of materialism. Such ideas through the two texts are shown with different methods .Of Mice and Men set in a time of post-depression where many were unemployed and sought low-paying jobs, hoping to make it big , while Into the Wild, being the complete opposite where many people were wealthy and materialism was rejected. George and Lennie's desire to have a piece of property that is all their own and to "live off the fatta the lan'" is a recurring motif in the novella. They worked hard to have their dream become true.
She had bigger dreams than just being a housewife and I think being the only woman on the farm stifles her. She looks to the men on the farm for friendship and companionship, but obviously they take it as flirting and in order to stay out of trouble with Curley, they stay away from her. This increases Curley’s wife’s loneliness. Curley’s wife represents women in the 1930’s during the Great Depression. Women in the 1930’s were seen by men as scheming and devious.
A dream can start out as something big and sound perfect. It can also decrease as time goes and it can affect your life in a negative way. In this novel of mice and men two of the characters Lennie and George have dreams to have a farm and live together. Their dreams effet how there lives go on. The first paragraph will be about curleys wife, then George then Lennie.
The old saying “Good things come to those who wait” is controversy topic among the world on whether good things truly come to those who wait or if waiting is the wrong choice. In Willa Cather’s novel O Pioneers! Alexandra Bergson inherits the family farmland when her father dies and commits herself to making the divide a stable and prosperous land while others are giving up and leaving. Happiness comes to those who wait in their life rather than those who choose wild and outrageous plans before they have the chance to mature. People who take the time to try new things and allow them to grow and prosper end up accomplishing what most would have failed.
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.
This shows us that no matter how hard they hoped and worked for their dream, it would eventually collapse, just like Wall Street. Every character I am going to comment on has or had a dream, in reality, they will never achieve. I will begin with Curley’s wife because, even though, she isn’t a migrant worker, she is still a prime example of loneliness and disappointment during the great depression. Throughout the novella, we become aware of just how lonely Curley’s Wife is, due to her hanging around the other men and craving their attention. She dresses in red high heels and wears red lipstick in order to attract the other men and gain their attention.
Awakening out of the American Dream Our lives are rooted deep within the promise of the American Dream, but for many people, this dream never achieves reality. The current trend in economic recession and enormous unemployment rate parallel those of the Great Depression of the 1930s when the lack of available jobs forced a large population of workers out on the street. Despite the economic woes, many people still find themselves holding on to the basic hope of the American Dream and continue to fight for what they believe in. The characters George and Lennie in John Steinbeck’s novel “Of Mice and Men” epitomize this human struggle to hold on to the American Dream while they face the reality of life. Due to Lennie’s mental problem, both he and
Steinbeck uses the great depression as the backdrop for the setting of mice and men. It is inevitable that the pressures of the great depression were there are no jobs, security: money and a worry over their future are conducive to conflict between the characters. Steinbeck introduces the conflict between George and Lennie at the beginning of the novel when George says to Lennie “I could get along so easy and so nice if I didn’t have you on my tail. I could live so easy and maybe have a girl.” The phrase “on my tail” shows that George feels that Lennie is constantly following him around and slowing him back in life. George may think that without Lennie, he could be living the American dream.