Of Mice and Men

The story Of Mice and Men took place during the Depression. 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 was also a time when people started questioning life and the American culture. Many people like John Steinbeck thought that life was very unfair and questioned whether life was even worth living. In Of Mice and Men John, Steinbeck demonstrates that man’s 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 at which he could have stayed 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

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” George saved a man’s life, and in return he got nothing. Lennie always wanted to “live of the fatty land” and “have rabbits, and puppies, go on George. George would repeat their dream to Lennie. The nicest thing George ever did for Lennie was giving him hope, and that’s what mentioning the dream farm did. She was a very pretty woman and that dream almost seemed probable, but she was born poor so basically reality told her that she was to just be a wife and do housework or work on a farm.

Curly’s wife’s dream was clearly presented in the novel.

Life was unfair in the thirties, and Of Mice and Men is a great example of that. 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. She naively waited for the letter but it never came. ” He was obviously lying to her and just had told her that stuff so that he might have a chance with her. For unimportant reasons, George, Curly’s Wife, and Crooks dreams were all destroyed by a cruel reality. He also got treated worse then everyone else. Crooks had worked at the farm for a very long time and was very lonely.

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