Of Mice and Men

The story Of Mice and Men took place during the 1930’s. That time period was very different from today. Race and gender were very important characteristics that determined whether a person had the opportunity to make money. The 1930’s were also a time where people started questioning life and the American culture. Many people like John Steinbeck thought that life was very unfair and questioned whether if life was even worth living. In Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck demonstrates that mans dream is destined to be destroyed by a cruel reality.

George was a very smart and able man who had taken responsibility of a mentally-challenged man named Lennie. George could have found a good steady job for which he could have stayed at and made good money, but when he went to work with Lennie, Lennie made a mistake that got both of them in trouble. George was a very good person for taking care of Lennie. Lennie was very dumb, but he always remembered the dream he and George shared. The main dream that George possessed

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She tells Lennie that her dream was to be a famous movie star. Crooks’ dram was less obvious then some of the other characters, but he wanted it as much as anyone else. He also got treated worse then everyone else. For unimportant reasons, George, Curly’s Wife, and Crooks dreams were all destroyed by a cruel reality. George’s dream was destroyed when Lennie killed Curly’s wife, forc!

ing George to kill Lennie, because reality did not allow those two to fulfil their dreams. She was a very unhappy woman and her dreams could never have come true because she was poor and uneducated. Everyone knows that up until the 1950’s when the civil rights movements were popular, that blacks were discriminated against and had no chance of becoming successful people.

Curly’s wife’s dream was clearly presented in the novel. ”(80) That just shows how limited Crooks was in when speaking to other people.

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. Lennie always wanted to “live of the fatta land” (81), and “have rabbits, and puppies, go on George. One day “a show come through here and I met one of the actors, and he told me I could be with that show.

Life was unfair in the thirties, and Of Mice and Men is a great example of that. She naively waited for the letter but it never came.

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