Imagine a book written in the 1930s still being filled with problems relevant today. Of Mice and Men is an example of this. There are numerous themes of Of Mice and Men. Some are loneliness and disappointment of dreams not coming true. Throughout the story, Steinbeck develops and maintains a theme of loneliness. Many characters are isolated and segregated based on many things. For example, Crook is left outside the bunkhouse and has to stay in the barn because he is black. Lennie is also left alone due to the fact that he has a mental disability. Candy is left out because he is old and disabled. Crook is a victim of racism. He is isolated from everyone and no one sees him except Slim; Crook admits that it gets lonely. Lennie is left out because of his mental disability. He is left at the bunkhouse when all the others went to gamble. Even George leaves him out and tells him out of anger how he would be better off without Lennie. Candy is with Lennie at home, but was left for a different reason. He is missing a hand and is getting old. They killed his dog for the same reason, so he is afraid he is going to get cut off soon. …show more content…
First, there is George and Lennie’s dream of getting enough money to sustain themselves. They want to work hard to get enough money to buy land, animals, and crops. After that, they don’t plan to work because they are going to live off of the land. Eventually, Candy joins in on the dream and Crook even offers to help. By the end of the story, the reader isn’t sure what the status of the dream is, but Lennie for sure doesn’t accomplish this dream. He killed Curley’s wife and George killed him to prevent him from hurting anyone else and from the other men hurting him. The second example of dreams not coming true is Curley’s wife. Curley’s wife has had the dream to be a film star. However, she was young when she started to pursue it, so her mom stopped