Shattered Dreams In Of Mice And Men By John Steinbeck

Shattered Dreams

John Steinbeck, the author of Mice and Men describes “When they land jobs on a ranch in the Salinas Valley, the fulfillment of their dream seems to be within their grasp” (Steinbeck, back of the book).The American Dream is available to any American it’s the highest goal that can be reachable. Immigrants come over to America and start their own American Dreams. The drive and hardship to live a happy life is most immigrants’ dreams. Most immigrants come to America because they did not have a good life in their country. Lennie, Candy, and Crooks are characters from John Steinbeck’s novella Of Mice and Men whose struggles with impost, discarded, and loneliness lead to broken dreams that negatively impact their lives.

To begin,

Lennie, George, and Candy ended their conversation about their dream, “Candy sat on the edge of his bunk. He scratched the stump of his wrist nervously. ‘I got hurt four year ago,’ he said. ‘They’ll can me purty soon’” (Steinbeck, 60). He is getting to a point where the farm that he is working on is not going to need his help; Candy is getting old and he is hurt, he is going to be useless to the farm. After George and Candy found the body of Curley’’s wife, Candy reveals, “You an’ me can get that little place, can’t we, George? You an’ me can go there an’ live nice, can’t we, George? Can’t we?” Before George answered, Candy dropped his head and looked down at the hay. He knew” (Steinbeck, 94). George is heartbroken after what Lennie has done; Candy asks if their broken dream would work out. Candy’s dream became a broken dream because he has been rejected from the idea of sharing the ownership of the

Crooks is talking to Lennie, Crooks shout “’Cause I’m black. They play cards in there, but I can’t play because I’m black. They say I stink. Well, I tell you, you all of you stink to me” (Steinbeck, 68). He was cut out from all of the group’s activities because he has a different skin color. Crooks announce, “ ‘I said s’pose George went into town tonight and you never heard of him no more.’ Crooks pressed forward some kind of private victory. ‘Just s’pose that,’ he repeated” (Steinbeck, 71). He was cut out from the others and Crooks became a person that saw the worst in people. Crooks look at the world with a sour look because of his skin, and his isolationism let him have a broken