Is Steinbeck's Idea Of The American Dream In Of Mice And Men

Over this unit, John Steinbeck pushes his idea of the American dream very heavily through the characters in his book, Of Mice and Men. John Steinbeck's veiw on the idea of the american dream is that is is nothing more that just a dream. He expresses this message by having some of the main characters work harder any anyone else but fall short of ever reaching their dreams. During the Socratic seminar, the class talk about how Lenny's dream was simple but George believed that they could make the American dream a possibility for them by starting from the bottom but works hard and becomes successful. At the end of the book when George decides he has to kill Lenny he tells Candy that a small part of him knew that they were never going