The two men desperately cling to each other as loneliness encroaches from all sides and threatens to tear them apart however, inevitably, their dreams are blown to one side by the death of Curley’s wife as Steinbeck makes true the poem ‘even the best laid plans of mice and men gang aft agley’. Even in killing Lennie, George hangs on to their friendship telling him “Let’s go get that place now” before ending his life and their bond. The eventual certainty of loneliness is represented by Candy as he gradually loses everyone and everything he ever cared for
What do we learn about the hopes and dreams of the characters in the novella “Of Mice and Men”? Steinbeck was foremost a commentator on American society. Throughout the entire novella we are shown that the hopes and dreams of all migrant workers in the 1930’s, were unattainable. The scene is set in the 1930’s, just after the Wall Street crash, during the great depression. This shows us that no matter how hard they hoped and worked for their dream, it would eventually collapse, just like Wall Street.
James J. Braddock was one of those hundred men trying to get the job. He is denied numerous times but eventually gets a job there. The movie shows how important jobs were back then to have, when James’s work buddy states that he needs this job and that James’s broken hand will get them behind on their work and get them both fired. He threatens to tell the boss about his broken hand. The movie Cinderella Man shows many examples of how the Great Depression affected unemployment.
As he tries to help the men attain their dream, he also reminds them of the possibility (and indeed, likelihood) that it’s going to fail. Once it does indeed fail, it’s Candy more than anyone else who feels the loss. While George mourns what he must do to his friend, and Lennie worries for the future rabbits, Candy is left to embody the despair one finds at the end of a long, hard-working life when you’re done with your career and no closer to the American dream. And also, your best friend (even if it is a dog), is
The boss thinks George must be "takin' his pay" (Lennie's) because he "never seen one guy take so much trouble for another guy". The very first section of Of Mice and Men is devoted to Lennie and George, in which both their characters are created. They are almost opposites, with George's "sharp, defined" features and Lennie's "shapeless face". The relationship between the two is created from the moment we see Lennie, as he rushes for the water, lapping it up "like a horse". He has no understanding over the situation, and drinks just because he's thirsty.
Sometimes when cchildren are betrayed by their love ones they tend to struggle with anger the most, just as Biff was affected by infidelity in the movie, Death of a Salesman. While Willy tried to raise perfect sons, he wrestled with himself between reality and denial of his son Biff, catching him in the hotel room with his mistress while on a business trip in Boston. Biff was a great football player; many universities had offered him scholarships but during that year Biff fail math by one point and had gone to Boston to tell his father the devastating news and for his father to come home and ask his math teacher to give him the one point he needed to enter college. When Biff reaches Willy's hotel room in Boston, he sees his dad with another woman and this discovery made Biff see his father as a fake. Biff, said to his dad “you are a fake; you are a liar, a liar” (Miller, 1958).
Lennie thrives off of George’s way of speaking about their dream and also the way he talks about him and Lennie’s unique and strong relationship “Guys like us that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family. They don't belong no place....With us it ain't like that. We got a future. We got somebody to talk to that gives a damn about us.” Lennie’s finds comfort
What is the significance of “dreams” in the novel? Hopes and dreams are a key and central theme to ‘Of Mice and Men’. George and Lennie share a dream of independence, owning their own land and working for themselves, which Candy and Crooks are quickly drawn into. Curley’s wife also has a dream of being a movie star in Hollywood, as well as the underlying ‘American Dream’ which forms the base of all the character’s separate ambitions as well as many thousands of other people of the time. 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.
Don’t make no difference who the guy is, long’s he’s with you. I tell ya,’ he cried, ‘I tell ya a guy get’s too lonely an’ he gets sick” (69). Crooks’ illustrates that his lack of companionship manifests itself physically and emotionally. The only alleviation of these symptoms for Crooks occurs when he offers to work on Candy, George, and Lennie’s farm (Steinbeck 76). Similarly, Curley’s wife seeks out other people as a way to cope with her loneliness.
They run away from their problems like in the Depression people move to different states and leaving their problems behind and hoping from a better life. In the Depression and the book their are no stable jobs. People are always worrying about their jobs and thinking if they will be able to have that same job tomorrow. Many things are related to the Great depression in the novel Of Mice and Men. The Great depression also played a major role in world events.