Of Mice And Men Quote Analysis

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George and Lennie’s dream is to own a farm and leave their jobs when they save enough money up. Lennie’s dream is also to “tend the rabbits”. One of the workers, Candy overheard them talking about owning a farm when they save enough money. Candy says he want in and George says no at first, but then Candy says that he’s saved a lot of money up. He said he will pay for half of it. George, then agrees to it and George needs the money at the end of the month to buy the farm after. This might come true or not come true. It was George and Lennie’s dream to own a farm when they save up enough money. George promises Lennie that they will get the farm when he get’s paid enough money. A quote that supports this, “O.K. Someday-we’re gonna get the jack together and we’re gonna have a little house and a couple of acres an’ a cow and some pigs”(Steinbeck, 14). Lennie, then says, “An’ love off the fatta the lan’ and have …show more content…

Candy says he wants to live with them on the farm and has offered to pay some of the money toward the farm. Also, Candy helps out with the financials because he’s paying half and George and Lennie are waiting till there payed enough money. They will have to quit their jobs. Candy obviously has to quit his job because he is very old and that’s not good for his health. George, Lennie, and Candy were about to live their dream out. Unfortunately, it doesn’t happen because Lennie ended up killing Curley's wife. Since Lennie killed Curley’s wife, George had no choice, but to kill Lennie. It was Lennie’s dream to tend the rabbits, but he never got the chance. This is very sad ending to the story because we wanted to know if George, Lennie, and Candy would get the farm. Unfortunately, George is very sad because he has been with Lennie for almost all of his life, and he needed to kill him because he ended up killing Curley’s