Despite Lennie’s best efforts to keep the dream it was not meant to be. Although Lennie is very child-like mentally, he is physically very strong and doesn’t realise his own strength. Consequently he does ‘bad’ things unintentionally, such as killing his puppy and Curley’s wife. Steinbeck continuously foreshadowed this event using a bad omen, “clashed the chains of their halters”. The word “clashed” has connotations of violence, the way Steinbeck has used this word as part of the bad omen could suggest that the dream ends in a violent way.
George and Lennie know that their dream will take time and hard work. George and Lennie in the story Of Mice and Men, reveal the challenges and struggles one must go through because the American Dream is so difficult to attain. John Steinbeck wanted to show you the amount of work and heart you have to give to conquer your dreams; that most people cannot overcome the work you have to go through because they are too lazy or that something goes wrong and it is no longer attainable. For George, it was the death of Lennie that made the American Dream unattainable. Overall, the American Dream is different for everyone, but it is still a great challenge and it is hard to accomplish for
Lennie and Cosmo are similar in many ways but also very different with the fact that Cosmo is a fairy and his show is a cartoon. Lennie is a strong, large and slow man. Lennie can’t tell right from wrong, he often has pets that he kills because he pets them too hard. Towards the end of Of Mice and Men he actually pets a woman too hard and ends up killing her. Lennie, because of his mild mental disability depends completely on George; pretty much to survive.
When they get to the ranch looking for the job the one that talks is always George, because Lennie have an issue in his brain that’s why he acts as a little kid. George talks to the owner of the ranch and he told him that Lennie is his cousin and his mother left him so he have to take care of the poor Lennie. I make the analysis and I get to the conclusion that mice in the title, and in the book are Lennie because mice can’t make decision by itself. I compare Lennie like the mice that the scientist uses in the laboratories to make experiments on them, because the nervous system is similar to a human one. The scientists use the mice in the laboratory to make experiments on them with many things, like medicine to see how they react to it.
George on the other hand is just a typical farmhand, not as strong as Lennie, but not nearly as dumb either. After Lennie's aunt Clara passed away George took the responsibility of looking after Lennie who was an animal lover, and couldn't take his hands off anything soft and fuzzy. Sadly he didn't know his own strength so he most often ended up killing them. Lennie and George weren't like other farmhands. They had each other, and therefore didn't live the life of solitude and isolation like many other farmhands.
Of Mice and Men Loneliness is one of the main emotions in Of Mice and Men. George and Lennie must have been lonely too. When we meet them in Of Mice and Men, they already know each other and George has already saved Lennie from getting into trouble. Candy was lonely too because he has his dog that he couldn't bear to part with. Crooks is lonely because he doesn't live with the white people and is usually alone all day.
Tired of constantly reminding Lennie of things he should remember, George gets quickly angry when Lennie forgets to get the firewood, for example, and instead goes after the dead mouse. On the other hand, George's anger is quickly under control, and he blames himself for scolding Lennie. In fact, Steinbeck makes clear that, despite his complaining and frustration, George looks out for Lennie and genuinely cares for him. Without companionship we have nothing, relationships with other people can define who a person is. Whether that relationship is with a dog, as in Candy’s case or with a wife like Curly.
He lives away from the others in a harness room, a little shed that leaned off the wall of the barn. Crooks is a proud but bitter man and clearly the most intelligent character. Crooks is a very angry man, especially towards the other men, the main reason is his race and he feels isolated. When Lennie wanders into Crooks room in a misguided endeavour to make friends he immediately tells Lennie that he should go but when Crooks realizes that Lennie has no bad intentions he relents and allows him to stay. Crooks attempts to make Lennie realize his isolation from the other workers, he freely admits it.
“Hopes and dreams help people to survive even if they never become real” – “Of mice and men” In the novel “Of mice and men”, there are many examples where characters have dreams but reality is different. George and Lennie, dream about getting their own farm, but this dream is different for everyone, George dreams about farm without a boss as well as he dreams about place where they can do everything they want, to live there without any restrictions. “An’ it’d be our own, an’ nobody could can us. If we don’t like a guy we can say ‘Get the hell out’, and by God he’s got to do it An’ if a friend’ come along, why we’d have an extra bunk, an’ we’d say, ‘Why don’t you spen’ the night?’ an’ by God he would.”. This quotation shows that he tries
The fact that the rabbits never really appear in the book, shows the reality of Lennie’s dreams that he will never understand. The mice in the story represent a false hope for a safe place for Lennie. The first mouse in the story is a dead one that Lennie likes to keep in his pocket so he can pet it. Which kind of says that Lennie doesn’t care about death or even realize it sometimes, he’s more concerned with comfort. The mice are what Lennie remembers his Aunt Clara by, and that’s the only thing he has to remember her by are those mice.