Of Mice And Men Dream Analysis

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Dreams are what keep us moving forward. They inspire us to do better than what we have done so far. But the thing with dreams is that sometimes we can’t reach them. Sometimes we dream too big, to the point where we could never achieve them in the ways we wish we could. And in the end, they leave us crushed. In the story Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck three of the characters had dreams that they had based their lives around at a point in time during the book. But in the end, George, Lennie, and Curley’s wife, had failed to accomplish the dreams that they strived for.
In the story Curley's wife had sat there and told Lennie and George multiple times that she could have been an actor. To be more specific, she had told Lennie, "'…a show come through… I met one of the actors. He says I could go with the show.'" (88 Steinbeck). Her dream was to be an actress. She wanted nothing more than that. And although it was, and still is a common dream today, It was important to her. But something came in and stopped her dream from happening. She then proceeded to explain, "'I tell you I ain't used used to livin' like this. I coulda made something of myself.' She said darkly… '…my ol' lady wouldn't let me. She says it's because I'm on'y
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Sometimes it's things we can control, other times, well, things can't go the way we would like them to. The three characters mentioned above had tried so hard to live out their dreams, but they couldn't because of all the problems that came with that dream. Curley's wife couldn't reach hers because her mother wouldn't let her, and Curley would soon hold her back as well. George and Lennie failed theirs because in the end, George was without Lennie, and their dream was planned out so they could do it together. But with Lennie dead, it was failed. They could have done it, but sometimes, our dreams can, and only will be

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