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Comparing Dreams In Of Mice And Men And The Necklace

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Do dreams really come true? The character in Of Mice and Men and “The Necklace” all had dreams Lennie and George had the dream of buying a house to live together. In “The Necklace,” Mathilde loisel, dream was to be rich instead of being poor she want it to have things that she didn’t have. Lennie and George in Of Mice and Men and Mathilde and her husband in “The Necklace” pursue dreams that both brings them together and makes them feel hopeless when their dreams are unfulfilled.It affects Mathilde positively by getting her and her husband together and it affect her negatively by making her hopeless by not completing her dream. For example, It took Mathilde ten years to get the necklace.“Her husband borrow money...and work for ten years” ( Maupassant 12). It affects her …show more content…

For example, She was at the party with her husband she was mostly admiring the walls and the furniture. She felt like she belong in their with the rich people because she had a pretty dress and a diamond necklace. “She thought of long reception halls hung with ancient silk, of the dainty cabinets priceless curiosities an of the little coquettish perfumed reception rooms made for chattin five o’clock with intimate friends, with men famous and sought after whom, all women envy and whose attention they all desire.”( Maupassant 14). she was admiring the walls and the furniture. She thought the she belong with them because she was wearing a nice dress, and a diamond necklace. she wanted to be rich like them. It affects her positively by getting her and her husband together and it affect her negatively by making her hopeless by not completing her dream. She was positively affected because it had brought her and her husband together to get a new necklace, and it was negatively affected because she had waste every coin she had obtained from working ten years for the

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