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

John Steinbeck’s described a world where the American Dream is harsh. Steinbeck paints a disturbing portrait of American in the 1930’s. Steinbeck reveals the truth of the American Dream. Steinbeck published a book Of Mice and Men, it was published in 1937 and it is still relevant today. His book is all about dreams, friendships, loneliness and more. It has really sensitive topics that can be disturbing, but it has a good outcome and can teach you a great quantity of stuff. All the characters have something unique about them and they all have a problem, most of them aren’t actually satisfied with what they have. Many characters seem to have different relationships, but George and Lennie seem to have the truest/virtues friendship. George and

If Lennie ever made a mistake George would try and help him out and try to get him out of his problems. Even though Lennie was “slow” he cared so much about George and didn’t want anything to happen to him. Steinbeck writes, “ Suddenly Lennie’s eyes centered and grew quiet, and mad. He stood up and walked dangerously toward Crooks. “Who hurt George?” he demanded.” (Steinbeck 72) Crooks was just telling Lennie that something could happen to George but he isn’t really saying that it is going happen and Lennie gets really upset. He doesn’t want anything to happen to George because George always helps him out no matter what. Meaning that he actually does care about George. One way that George protected Lennie, was by killing him. George remembers what Candy said about his dog being shot, saying "I should have done it myself". The most painful thing to watch would be Lennie being tortured to death by some strangers than getting killed quickly by George. Which means, George decided to take the action of killing Lennie himself because he loved

Many men always had dreams, and rarely any of them would actually accomplish what they wanted to do. But what was different about them was, that they knew where they were going to live and where almost done gathering their money. Steinbeck notes, “O.K. Someday—we’re gonna get the jack together and we’re gonna have a little house and a couple of acres an’ a cow and some pigs and—"An’ live off the fatta the lan’," Lennie shouted. "An’ have rabbits. Go on, George! Tell about what we’re gonna have in the garden and about the rabbits in the cages and about the rain in the winter and the stove, and how thick the cream is on the milk like you can hardly cut it.” (Steinbeck 14) Not many men had actually accomplished what they wanted, George and Lennie had plans to live together, they were ready for what the future had in store for them. Even though George was the only doing most of the work, he still wanted to be with Lennie because Lennie had turned into his best