'Of Mice and Men and the American Dream'

'Of Mice and hands, by keister Steinbeck is a sham story array in calcium during the Great Depression, which sustains the misadventures of George and Lennie as they strive to scram a leak their romance property. The snarlyness of a delusion, namely the American daydream, is a prominent estimation within the textbook that is master(prenominal) to select due to whatever aspirations having the corresponding indefin powerfulness in reality. Most study characters in Of Mice and Men admit, at champion point or another, to dreaming of a different lifetime with contentment and exemption. beforehand her death, Curleys wife confesses her desire to be a mental picture star: He [said] I could go with that show. But my ol madam wouldnt permit me., So I married Curley. Crooks, the sharp unchangeable buck, allows himself the pleasant fantasy of lend[ing] a hand. hoeing a flake at Lennies farm And dulcify latches on desperately to Georges ken of owning ten of acres. e arly within the text, circumstances come already robbed most of the characters of these wishes.\nGeorge and Lennie contrive a luminary inclination to follow the American Dream by the factor of acquiring a plot of body politic, condescension the obvious narrowness of chance they have in their made eventuation. The mutual pinch hope which drives them in following their fantasy is often challenged by realism through characters such as Crooks, who proposes that they will never earn a plot of land till they take [them] out in a box. Their predictable future of distress is supported by Lennies subconscious waywardness and accidental ability to cause crack to those around him. George is change to the impossibility of his dream when his partner Lennie incidentally kills the wife of Curley, and later is killed himself. This devastation proves that the stable buck just: such paradises of freedom and contentment argon not veridical within humanity.\nIt is important to recogn ize that this elusive dream exists today. In real life, e... '