For one thing, George and Lennie often talk about owning a little house, a few acres of land, and live in serenity without having to work for somebody.
George and Lennie recite, “Someday-we’re gonna get the jack together and we’re gonna have a little house and a couple acres an’ a cow and some pigs…An’ live off the fatta the lan’…’An’ have rabbits” (Steinbeck 14).
This expresses that both George and Lennie hope to achieve their dreams and are motivated and inspired to work until they have what they need to live life the way they want without being told.
Another example of a character having a dream is Candy, whom offers money to George and Lennie to grow a garden as part of being part of their dream.
He recounts, “Maybe if I give you guys my money, you’ll let me hoe in the garden even after I ain’t no good at it…When they can me here I wisht somebody’d shoot me…I won’t have no place to go, an’ I can’t get no more jobs” (Steinbeck 60)
This shows that Candy is found to be useless and timeworn by himself and others and wants to be apart of their ranch to escape his inefficiency once he’s too old to be a swamper instead of having no job and no place to go.
In Of Mice and Men, characters have dreams of living a better life in future.
For one thing, George and Lennie often talk about owning a little house, a few acres of land, and live in serenity without having to work for somebody.
George and Lennie recite, “Someday-we’re gonna get the jack together and we’re gonna have a little house and a couple acres an’ a cow and some pigs…An’ live off the fatta the lan’…’An’ have rabbits” (Steinbeck 14).
This expresses that both George and Lennie hope to achieve their dreams and are motivated and inspired to work until they have what they need to live life the way they want without being told.
Another example of a character having a dream is Candy, whom offers money to George and Lennie to