What Is Lennie's Dream In Of Mice And Men

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Dreams sometimes are inconspicuous, and at times they can be elusive. Additionally, dreams do not attract nor require a copious amount of attention and they reside covertly in the back of someone 's mind. Perhaps the person has not elected to share their dream, so over time, it becomes a work of tired thoughts and ideas that have grown old and the person misplaces or forgets their own dream. More importantly, it is difficult to identify why some dreams incessantly linger in one 's thoughts. The dream doesn’t burn out, instead, it becomes louder and converts into unorganized patterns. If a dream doesn’t stop, then it becomes callous and a challenge to ignore. Rarely, it transforms into an obsession that loiters in one’s mind, yet the owner doesn’t send it away. In Of Mice and Men, George and Lennie’s dream and the …show more content…

George and Lennie appear to share the same dream, but it is evident that it is George’s dream. Specifically, Lennie goes along with the dream and perhaps at some point, he took ownership of the idea, but it was always George’s dream. Eventually, Lennie starts to fall in love with the dream. Unfortunately, Lennie doesn’t know better or enough and does things that hinder the chances of George’s dream materializing. “Lennie said, “George.” “Yeah?” “I done another bad thing.” “It don’t make no difference,” George said, and he fell silent again.” 6.343-37. Grief and disappointment began to settle into George’s dream, but this is a habit Of Mice and Men and how it seems to build upon loneliness and in a sense, defeat. Consequently, dreams sew together the misery and imagination that John Steinbeck designed, in order to convey his ideas about the human nature and its tendency to dream. Perhaps George knew his dream was going to permanently reside as a dream, and he couldn’t undo what human nature has proven, that dreaming is

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