The Power Of A Dream In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

Always have a dream, nobody can tell you how to live your life. Curley’s wife lost her dream and she lives an unhappy life. George and Lennie have a dream that gives them a reason to keep living and working as they do. George and Lennie’s dream is so powerful that it draws in all who hear it. Dreams have the power to change lives by giving hope. Curley’s wife lost her dream and she lives an unhappy life. For example she met this guy who said, “He says he is gonna put me in the movies…I never got that letter (Steinbeck 88).” She wanted to be with this guy but she never heard back from him. Curley’s wife states, “How’d you like not to be able to talk to anybody (Steinbeck 87)?” This proves she has a lonely and unhappy life. Another example would be when Curley’s wife states, “I don’ like Curley. He ain’t a nice fella (Steinbeck 89).” This proves she is unhappy because she isn’t satisfied with her husband. George and Lennie have a dream that gives
For example Candy states, “S’pose I went with you guys. Tha’s three hundred an’ fifty buck I’d put in (Steinbeck 59).” Candy wants to be in George and Lennie’s dream so he offers them money to help pay. Another example is, “George half – closed his eyes. ‘I gotta think about that. We was always gonna do it by themselves (Steinbeck 59).” This is George responding to Candy when he wanted to be in their dream. Another example is, “They fell into a silence. They looked at each other amazed. This thing they had never really believed in was coming true (Steinbeck 60).” This was after Candy offered to be in their dream when they started to discuss how this could work.
The evidence is overwhelming: dreams really do have the power to change lives by giving hope. Curley’s wife had a dream, George and Lennie had a dream. What if there was never a dream? The whole novel would be pointless, George and Lennie would have no motivation to keep moving on in