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The Phenomenon Of Dreams In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

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The Great Depression was a harsh reality for many people in the 1930’s. Many people were losing jobs and were frantically looking for new ones. People separated themselves from this tragic time by making there own dreams to give themselves hope. Characters in Of Mice And Men by John Steinbeck are going through many harsh realities and are using dreams to cope with the truth. Five characters who exhibit this phenomenon of using dreams to give them hope are George and Lennie, Candy, Crooks, and Curley's wife. George and Lennie use the dream of getting a farm to cope with the fact that they are struggling to find and keep jobs. While Candy uses the hope of living on the farm to make himself feel safe and to take the worry of being fired and having
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