The dream they want, is a dream they’ll never get. Having a dream and achieving it are two different things. We all have dreams, but how realistic are those dreams? The truth is most people will never see their dreams come true. The difficulty of achieving the American dream is illustrated in John Steinbeck’s novel Of Mice and Men through the struggles of the main characters. George Milton and Lennie Small’s dream is of owning a small plot of land where they can retire and live independently. Their dream dies when George shoots Lennie in the head to save him from a worse fate.
Poverty, prejudice, and fate conspire against George and Lennie. The impossibility of achieving their dream is Steinbeck’s way of showing us that society holds us back.
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(1) “ No place for rabbits now, but i could easily build a few hutches and you could feed alfalfa to the rabbits.”; (2)“We’d jus’ live there. We’d belong there. There wouldn’t be no more runnin’ round the country and gettin’ fed by a Jap cook. No, sir we’d have our own place where we belonged and not sleep in no bunkhouse”; (3) “Sure, we’d have a little house an’ a room to ourself. Little fat iron stove, an’ in the winter we’d keep a fire goin’ in it. It ain’t enough land so we’d have to work too hard. Maybe six, seven hours a day.” (OMAM pages 17 &