Dreams in Of Mice And Men Essay

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 itd be our own, an nobody could can us. If we dont like a guy we can say Get the hell out, and by God hes got to do it An if a friend come along, why wed have an extra bunk, an wed say, Why dont you spen the night? an by God he would.. This quotation shows that he tries and keeps Lennies sprits up by giving him ideas about how there new life would be, this relates back to the question of hopes and dreams help people to survive even if they never become real and proves that it is correct because it keeps the men working so they have enough money to buy the new house.

On the other hand Lennie dreams about farm where they will have

strawberries, rabbits and their own little house to live in. Lennie is very fascinated by this imagination, so he always wants to hear about it, waiting for the moment when that time will come.George, how longs it gonna be till we get that little place an live on the fatta the lan- an rabbits?Lennie is doing what George wants him to do, and tries not to get into a trouble because of his dream he has already in his head. What you gonna say tomorrow when the boss asks you questions? And Lennie replies I...I aint gonna...say a word.

Candy too dreams about better life. This is shown when he hears George and Lennie talking about their dreams and offers a large amount of money to them as request to live with them till he dies.Maybe if I give you guys my money, youll let me hoe in the garden even after I aint no good at it. Andll wash dishes an little chicken stuff live that. But Ill be on our own place, an Ill be let to work on our own place. Candy has only his dog as his one companion. Upon the killing of the dog You seen what they done to my dog tonight? They says he wasnt no good to himself nor nobody else. But they wont do nothing like that. I wont have no place to go, an I cant get no more jobs. He has no one and therefore, attaches himself to the dream that George and Lennie share. It seems that he is much more interested in this plan. He is speaking about that to everybody and when somebody did not believe they will accomplish it he becomes angry at the moment: You God damn right were gonna do it. George says we are. We got the money right now But there is one difference. Even after Lennie kills Curleys wife, Georges life is completely changed, but Candy still wants to carry out this dream.

Curley's wife has a dream that is different from the other's dreams, she wants companionship so much that she will try to talk to people who do not want to talk to her, like all the men on the ranch. You gotta husban. You got no call foolin aroun with other guys, causin trouble. Unsatisfied by her husband, she constantly lurks around the barn trying to engage the workers in conversation. She has also another dream. she wanted to be an actress, she craved fame and believes she could still be famous. "I coulda made somethin' of myself. Maybe I will yet." This shows the importance of her dream, it gives her something to look forward to, a better life than her present situation.

When I read the novel I know that Curley's wife is unhappy with her life, she doesn't even like her husband. "I don't like Curley. He ain't a nice fella." She tells Lennie of the high life she could be living. "could been in the movies, an' had nice clothes. An' I coulda sat in them big hotels, an' had pitchers took of me." This detail shows exactly what Curley's wife wants, as well as showing what she has not got, she is the only female on the ranch and is married to a man who sees her as sexual object "he wears a glove fulla vaseline," and she is treated like a girl, "maybe you just better go along an' roll your hoop". She also has no friends like when she says- "I get lonely" and no one to talk to.Curleys wife is downhearted by the dreams and hopes she has I believe because she doesnt look in the present she looks in the past of what she could have had so I dont think hopes and dreams help her.

I think Curley's wife's dream is important in "Of Mice and Men," because, it shows how different people suffer, it is not just the workers who dream of better lives, but others as well. Look across the river, Lennie, an Ill tell you so you can almost see it When George tells Lennie to look across the river and imagine their farm, he lets Lennie die with the hope that they will still live there dream and live it soon. George who killed Lennie, is not allowed such comfort. He must go on living knowing the failure of their dream, as well as deal with the guilt of having killed his best friend.

Almost every person on this ranch dreams about something, but these dreams did not mean the same for everybody. But I admire them, because their dreams had so big sense for them. It was a kind of motivation that pulled them forward for better things in life. In my view it is very important to have dreams, because also in real life dreams they can help us to enjoy or make our lives betters knowing that we have something to look forward to.