Comparing The American Dream In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

The book, Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck was written in the time period of the Great Depression. In this novella, people go around working from ranch to ranch in hopes of having enough money to be able to get their American dream. George and Lennie travel together and end up on a ranch with other people who were doing the same work. As they are there they realize that their dream may be easier to get than they thought and begin to put their plans of a different future in action but Lennie, not being able to understand many things, accidentally kills a girl and takes off to his hiding spot. George decides that enough was enough and he needed to stop Lennie. George shoots Lennie and kills their dream with him. The American dream plays a

Everyone in this book had some kind of American dream that they wanted to get, but then everything got in the way and prevented them from getting their dream. When Lennie had just killed Curley’s wife and fled and George was talking to Candy, he said, “-I think I knowed from the very first, I think I knowed we’d never do her. He usta like to hear about it so much I got to thinking maybe we would” (Steinbeck 94). No one in the book was able to gain their dreams even the ones who had not done anything wrong. It is nearly impossible for people to get the American dream because people put everything into such high expectations that can almost never be met. It makes sense that the author would end the book on such a sad note because he was writing in the time period of the great depression where it was a really bad time for people to be trying to get their dream because of the lack of jobs and money.The situation that everyone was in caused there to be a huge lack of money for people so everyone was fighting for jobs and people couldn’t get enough money to get everything that they wanted. It doesn't always make sense how things end up happening and it doesn't always seem fair but no place is