Summary Of John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck In the book, Of Mice and Men, written by John Steinbeck in the 1930s’ during the great depression. The main setting in this book is a farm where migrant farm workers work on the boss farm for a period of time. The two main migrant farmer workers in this story travel together, which was very unusual back then. Their names were George and Lennie. In this Story, George and Lennie are traveling to a new farm from their old one. Once arriving there they meet many other migrant farm workers who all to do one thing and that was to make money. When achieving money one goal that is common among them all is to someday get their own land, and this then sets the stage for the American dream. In the book all migrant works seem to have some kind of view on the American dream, but many know that the

Lennie end up accidentally killing Curley's wife who doesn’t ever get the chance to achieve her American dream because she is dead. Due to Lennie killing Curley’s wife him and George would either have to stay and Lennie get locked up or they would have to run away, but due to previous experience George was done running and if they didn't run Lennie would get caught and shot in the gut so he could suffer. George didn’t want him to suffer. When Candy sees what Lennie has done he asks George if they were going to still by the house and George tells him probably not and he adds, “ I should of knew… I guess maybe way back in my head I did” (Steinbeck 94). When saying this George means that he kind of already knew the American dream they had wouldn’t come true, because in the back of his head he knew Lennie would do something bad. This shows that even George had some doubt in the American dream and now the dream would not come true. It may also seem that the American dream that they characters had really was just a dream and not something that was realistic to