Of Mice And Men Quote Analysis

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Even by working hard, people don’t always get what they want. In the book Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, Lennie and George are two friends who are traveling to find a job, so they can finally earn money and live their dream life. They find the farm, and they had a hard path in the future to get their dream. Whether they will reach it is the real question. John Steinbeck developed the impossibility of the American dream in the 1930s by showing that people worked hard for their dreams, if they can’t physically do work they aren’t interesting to people, and people following their dreams become selfish.
People worked very hard to achieve their dreams, that’s my first reason. The point here is that so many people worked hard to achieve their goals and their conditionals weren’t the best but they still worked through them it shows how hard was it to achieve their American dream during the 1930s. This quote is very good proof of my point “God damn near four miles that’s what it was.” (Steinbeck 5). This quote shows that doesn’t matter what conditions people had, they …show more content…

The point here is that during the 1930s people worked a lot and they would get paid for their work, but when people are not useful anymore no one cares about what is going to happen to them. This quote shows the example of how the old dog is being treated when he is useless. “God almighty that dog stinks. Get him outta here, Candy. I don’t know nothing that stinks as bad as an old dog. You gotta get him out.” (Steinbeck 74). The quote connects to the point because this old dog represented a person who can’t physically do anything anymore, so people lose their interest in this person like they lost to the dog and told Candy to get him out of the room. When they also said that the dog is useless Candy took it personally. This shows that during this time people counted the time they didn’t have time for useless things or