Friendship In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

“Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.”
(Friendship Quotes). Of Mice and Men is a book about two friends who have a dream of owning a farm, Lennie: the dumb one and George: the smart one, who travel together in search of a job, during the Great Depression. They eventually do get a job and meet friendly and mean people along the way. Eventually, Lennie has accidentally killed Curley's wife and then George went off to find Lennie and kills him so he wouldn’t suffer in jail. George’s dream of owning a farm and having a lot of money affects Candy, Lennie, and Curley’s wife positively and negatively because Lennie motivated George to keep on trying to get this farm, because of this, Candy came in the

In the text, it says “S’pose I went in with you guys. Tha’s three hundred and fifty bucks I’d put in” (Steinbeck 59). Lennie and George are the definition of friendship and Candy knows this, so this encourages him to put down an offer to help them out so they could help him out in return. George’s dream affected him positively because Candy wants a friend because he doesn’t want to be alone for the remainder of his life; he wants someone like George and Lennie to have his back knowing that George and Lennie have been through it all. It also says, “ Candy said, ´I ain't much good with on'y one hand. I lose my hand right here on this ranch. That's why they give me a job swampin'. An' they give me two hunderd an' fifty dollars 'cause I los' my hand. An' I got fifty more saved up right in the bank, right now. Tha's three hunderd, and I got fifty more comin' the end a the month” (Steinbeck 58-59). Candy hopes to be useful and he made that very clear in this quote, and he can’t do much now that he is old with one hand. George’s dream impacted him positively because he wants to make something out of himself while he can like what George did when he kept on dreaming about adding on to his farm.

It also says in the text, “Her face grew angry. ‘Wha’s the matter with me?’ she cried. “Ain’t I got the right to talk to nobody? Whatta they think I am, anyways?” (Steinbeck 87). Friends like George and Lennie don’t let each other get into trouble with people like Curley's wife. George’s dream impacts hers negatively because George told Lennie not to talk to her otherwise he can’t tend the rabbits, so when she did talk to him and he kept on ignoring her, this made her mad and then he accidentally killed her. "What kinda harm am I doin' to you? Seems like they ain't none of them cares how I gotta live. I tell you I ain't used to livin' like this. I coulda made somethin' of myself"(Steinbeck 87). She had a dream of becoming an actress and she couldn’t pursue that because she had no one to help her pursue that. George’s dream impacted her negatively because she knew that Lennie will get in trouble because of her, which makes her even more likely to talk to him for attention, and this is why Lennie accidentally killed her. "I get lonely," she said. "You can talk to people, but I can't talk to nobody but Curley. Else he gets mad. How'd you like not to talk to anybody?" (Steinbeck 87). She doesn’t have any friends or someone to count on but Curley and