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Themes in Of Mice and Men Essay

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Theme Analysis

The characters in Of Mice and Men admit, at one point or another, to be envisioning of a different life. Before her death, Curleys wife acknowledges her desire to Lennie to become a movie star. Crooks, even though he is harsh, allows himself the pleasing desire of hoeing a scrap of garden on Lennies farm one day, and Candy holds on desperately to Georges dream of owning a couple of acres.

During the reading of the beginning of the novel, circumstances have taken away most of the characters of these wishes. Curleys wife, for example, has reconciled herself to an unrewarding marriage with Curley. What makes all of these dreams unique is that the dreamers wish for happiness, for the freedom to pursue their own wishes. George and Lennies dream of possessing a farm, which would allow them to maintain themselves, and offer them safety from an unfriendly world be representing a replica of an American dream.

The American Dream is to work hard and have everything you want and to have more than your parents did. It consists of financial security, real estate, recognition of work and/or skills and satisfaction with the results. "Living well is the best revenge." It's why they call it a "dream" because it escapes most of Americans born here. Immigrants, though, are a different story and their dream is to have all the things their birth country could not provide or would not allow.

Their journey, which awakens George to the impossibility of this dream, sadly proves that the bitter Crooks is right: such paradises of freedom, contentment, and safety are not to be found in this world

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