The American Dream
The Webster dictionary defines the word dream as “A succession of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations”. Many people have different perspectives about dreams. In John Steinbeck's novel Of Mice and Men, George and Lennie set out to achieve their dream of owning a ranch while demonstrating the importance of friendship/companionship, while explaining the power of dreams and the impact they have. Steinbeck has shown throughout the story the bond of friendship is a double-edged sword, because while it can strengthen relationships it can also weaken and destroy them. Steinbeck shows this in the story when George ends Lennie’s life because he looked out for him.
John Steinbeck’s novel Of Mice and Men portrays a life of two migrant workers Lennie Small and George Milton. They have been best friends. George is characterized as a shorter man with a dark face while Lennie is almost the opposite with a large face and a large body,
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One warm day when all of the ranch workers were playing horseshoes Curley’s wife came into the barn and started to talk Lennie. Lennie tried refusing to talk to her because of what George had told him, but she started talking about her hair and mentioned that her hair was soft, so Lennie was asking her if he could touch her hair and she allowed him to. Suddenly, she got frightened by Lennie. She struggled so she started to scream but Lennie prevented her so no one could hear her. Lennie had then broken her neck and she was dead. And soon George learned that Lennie would be better off not to live because he knew he could get into more trouble,George found lennie wondering in the woods so he went up to him and started talking to him "George raised his gun and his hand shook, and he dropped his hand to the ground again" (105). George had killed Lennie