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

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In the book Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, George and lennie have a dream, That dream is to own an acer of land and live of the fatta tha lan . In the third chapter Candy a swamper who was eais dropping hears in on their dream , Cady offers to help with their dream because he has half the money that they need george and lennie agree to this and the begin working so they they can each put in 50 dollars to buy the property. But as lennie is mourning the loss of his puppy Curley 's wife wanders in and starts talking to lennie. Lennie , white petting Curley 's wife 's hair Accidently breaks her neck running and chance that they will have at a normal life. Although it may appear that curley 's wife is to blame. She is not as If lennie had listed to george and not talked to her she would not be dead . It is also the people she meets as they teach her that flirting is the only way to get a guy 's attention. …show more content…

The first reason that it wasn 't her fault is that Lennie was the one who killed her , he killed her Because he didn 't listen to George . He may have done it on accident but it was still his fault therefore he is partially to blame for ruining the dream. This is lennie 's fault as he let Curley 's wife flirtatious attitude get to him. Although some people may argue that it is Curley 's wife 's fault for flirting, Lennie wouldn 't have been emotionally distraught over the death of his puppy if he had listed to george about, We know that Lennie was eventually going to kill his puppy as he had killed every pet he has gotten we. He also didn 't follow georges d so it was lennies fault for not listening to george “You’ll kill him the first thing