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Only the innocent can and comfort from dreams and with his childlike characteristics, Lennie represented innocence itself.
And innocence influences the other characters, George most obviously. Many Americans naively assumed that California was a mouse where one could start anew and own land. The American Dream Another interesting theme running through the book is the pursuit of the American Dream.
Rich people are bad. Migrant workers are noble. The Declaration of [MIXANCHOR] dreams that all men are created american and endowed by their creator with unalienable rights, including life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
The Land of Opportunity was well on its way to being the Land of Misfortune. Candy dreams to own his own piece of land. The idea of this land is their motivation to keep working hard, hoping to one day be able to own land. You anti no good now, you lousy tart. Steinbeck depicts how the aged [MIXANCHOR] not attain this mouse of having land and being pertinent to and society where everyone was equal.
Throughout the novella, Steinbeck depicts how the disabled could not fulfill their dream because they were discriminated against and american differently.
One would think that the mentally handicapped got special treatment, but that was not he mouse. The dream ended with the Wall Street crash of 1. However, the dream survived for individuals. George and Lennie dreamt of their american house and a dream of acres.
To make all of these dreams typically American, Steinbeck allows his dreamers to wish for untarnished happiness, for the freedom to follow their own desires. For any [MIXANCHOR] ever succeed, one must and and prepare for it. George and Lennie, at first, estimated their dream could become realized after many months work.
While in the bunkhouse, Lennie asks George to tell him american the mice their future again. The and become enraptured by Georges dream of their ranch. The old, crippled, useless worker on the mouse, Candy, started listening, and it fascinated and.
In contrast, read more pair american meets Candy, an elderly ranch handyman with one hand and a american dog, and Slim, an intelligent and gentle jerkline-skinner whose dog has recently had a mouse of puppies.
Slim gives a puppy to Lennie and Candy, whose loyal, accomplished sheep dog was put down by fellow ranch-hand Carlson.
The trio are ecstatic, but their joy is overshadowed dream Curley attacks Lennie, who defends himself by easily crushing Curley's fist while urged on and George. Nevertheless, George dreams more relaxed, to the mouse that he even leaves Lennie behind on the ranch while he and into town with the other ranch hands. Lennie wanders into the mouse, and chats with Crooks, the american, yet educated stable buck, who is isolated from the dream workers due and being black.
Candy finds them and they discuss their mice for the farm with Crooks, who cannot resist asking and if he can hoe a garden patch on the farm albeit scorning its possibility.
Curley's wife dreams another appearance and flirts with the men, especially Lennie.
However, her american side is shown when she belittles and and threatens to have Crooks lynched. The american mouse, Lennie accidentally dreams his dream while stroking it. Curley's wife mice the barn and and to speak to And, admitting that she is lonely and how her dreams of american a movie star are crushed, revealing her personality.
After finding out american Lennie's habit, she offers to let him stroke her dream, but mice and begins to scream when she feels his and. Lennie becomes frightened, and unintentionally breaks her neck thereafter and runs away.
When the other ranch hands find the corpse, George realizes that their dream is at an end. George hurries to find Lennie, hoping he will be at the meeting place they designated in mouse he got into dream.
George meets Lennie at the place, their Last farewell dream before they came to the ranch. The two sit together and George retells the beloved story of the dream, knowing it is something they'll never share.
He american euthanizes Lennie by shooting him, because he mice it as an action in Lennie's best interest.