Imagine spending lots of time coming up with one plan. A plan that will one day, no doubt, be reached. No matter what the plan is, or how foolproof it is that it will go perfectly as expected. And then it doesn’t. In fact it goes nothing like it was supposed to. Of Mice and Men is a novel that shows a great example of this, it’s about two young men that are trying to survive during the Great Depression. This means that they typically move to new jobs a lot, however each job tends to be pretty rough. The two also have a dream to own a farm one day, however since they’re in the Great Depression this seems highly unlikely. Within the book the use of the “dream farm” as a symbol helps readers understand the novel’s true theme that even perfect plans will go wrong. …show more content…
The farm is supposed to represent George and Lennie’s plan for the future. At first this seems impossible, but while on the farm George and Lennie start to talk to another worker, Candy. While talking to Candy, he mentions that if he were to join them and help with the money then “tha’s three hundred an’ fifty bucks,” (Steinbeck 59). This makes the dream farm no longer a dream, but instead it is now a plan. This means that now anytime in the novel that the dream farm is mentioned, the readers believe it is a plan and not just some dream. Everything will go perfect and they will get the farm, but then they don’t, and that’s when the them comes