How Does The Dreams Affect George's Life

“Look across the river Lennie, and I’ll tell you so you can almost see it”- George Milton. John Steinbeck, a Nobel Prize winning author, wrote a novel about two migrant workers (named George and Lennie) titled Of Mice and Men. George and Lennie dream of owning and living on a piece of their own land instead of having to work for landowners. They dream of raising cattle and growing crops on this future land. George’s life was impacted by this dream through the hope for the future and ease that it gave him. In chapter one of the novel, George’s life is impacted by the dream because he uses it to calm down Lennie’s strength and power. For an example, when George starts explaining the land to Lennie by the campfire, the narrator describes, “Lennie was delighted” (14). This shows us how George uses the dream to calm down Lennie’s strength and power because we

For instance, when Lennie persuades George to tell him about the farm, George says, “ ‘Look across the river, Lennie, an’ I’ll tell you so you can almost see it’ ” (105). This shows us how the dream made killing Lennie easier because it served as a distraction for George when he was going to kill Lennie. He told Lennie to turn around and look over the lake so that he can almost see the dream farm. George would not want Lennie to see him pulling the trigger at Lennie so the dream served as a good distraction. Another example is when George told Lennie for the last time that he could tend the rabbits, the narrator described, “Lennie giggled with happiness” (105). This shows us how the dream made killing Lennie easier because George would have wanted Lennie to die in peace and happiness. The thought of tending the rabbits brought serenity to Lennie’s mind and so his last breathes were joyful ones, just how George wanted. The dream brought ease to George’s life because it made killing Lennie a lot faster and