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Lennie's American Dream

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In the novel Of Mice and Men George tells Lennie “You… an’ me. Ever’body gonna be nice to you. Ain’t gonna be no more trouble. Nobody gonna hurt nobody nor steal from em’“ (Steinbeck #) to comfort him. Which John Steinbeck, the author, is trying to show us how lives were lived, especially what Lennie faced in his life. All his American dream is, is to be able to live in a house with his pal George that he knows will never leave him. George realizes that he can not always help Lennie. Though the character of Lennie, John Steinbeck shows that issues outside the control of an individual often limit the achievement of his or her dreams.

Lennie is driven about his future with George and pleads for George to retell their shared dream. This is …show more content…

Secondly, Lennie does not realize his issues are the reasons he struggles with soft things. This is shown through the novel by Steinbeck, to show that these issues causes many series of ways his future in front of him will get harder. '" Course he ain 't mean. But he gets in trouble alla time because he 's so God damn dumb. Like what happened in Weed— ' He stopped. 'What 'd he do in Weed? ' Slim asked calmly. 'Well, he seen this girls red dress... The girls lets out squawk... He holds on 'cause that 's the only thing he can think to do... And he 's so God dam strong you know" ' (Steinbeck 41). Which Lennie does not apprehend when he does things like that it will cause his dream to come to a stop. George can not always be around to fix Lennie choices that will cause damage to his life. He might not understand the things he has done, but he does not know George will get mad at him. He really will not ever change how he is, which will cause his future thoughts to end without him even …show more content…

As an individual with disabilities like the character of Lennie faces, which clearly Steinbeck shows the causes of his control to achieve his dream to freedom with George and soft things. Unfortunately, Lennie lines in a time where disabilities were thought of as issues that can not be fixed and are worthless. Even though many had no one there to help them. Which Lennie just limits everything over time by all the bad things he keeps doing because of his disabilities. Even him asking about his future will not change the fact he has killed and hurt many people just trying to get to his dream. Him also messing up could of got him fired, which would have had George gone just as well. So, the money they tried working for just goes down the drain once again. No matter how bad he has tried to do better, he gets himself stuck in something that will never get him to the freedom to happiness. Today Lennie would have been treated much better if he actually how people there that understand his issues. He would have been cared more in today 's time, it is more of a big deal and understood today. Lennie has faced many crushing

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