A Comparison Of Dreams In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

Dreams, everyone has a dream & almost all dreams are ruined by the creators. In John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men there are multiple instances of this. When George and Lennie are working toward their “dream farm”, this dream gets ruined by an accidental murder. This is just one of the many cases in which this occurs throughout the story. In the novella George, Candy, Curley’s wife and Lennie’s dreams get ruined, but they are not only ruined by others, they are destroyed directly as repercussions of their own actions. Lennie always dreamed of having a farm with rabbits, crops, livestock, etc; but Lennie’s dream does not go quite as he planned.
Lennie begged, “Le’s do it now. Le’s get that place now.” “Sure, right now. I gotta. We gotta.” And George raised the gun and steadied it, and he brought the muzzle of it close to the back of Lennie’s head. The hand shook violently, but his face set, and his hand steadied.
Lennie and George have been trying to get their “dream farm” for a while now, and Lennie although he doesn’t know it, through direct correlations of his actions he has just destroyed even the slightest possibility of it coming true. The “dream farm” almost became a reality, but due to Lennie and George’s actions this will never happen.
Curley’s Wife dreamed of one day becoming a movie star or a celebrity, but her path became a little skewed. “‘’Nother time I met a guy, an’ he was in pitchers. Went out to the Riverside Dance Palace with him. He says he was gonna put me in the movies. Says I was a natural.”(44) In this passage Curley’s wife is talking to Lennie about her dream of being an actress. After this passage Lennie accidentally kills Curley’s wife, and it was all because she wants to get attention. Curley’s wife has a dream of one day being a movie star, but that dream is short lived, and ends due to her thirst for