Dreams Always Come True Analysis

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Dreams don’t always come true. This is what author John Steinbeck portrays in this book. He shows this through the perspective of migrant farm workers that all have had dreams, that these dreams haven’t worked out or cause worse problems for the characters. These dreams gave them something to look forward to or strive to accomplish. Even after all that lennie did he in the beginning he still was asking if he could tend the rabbits in the end “I wanted to be a star”, this is what the character of curley 's wife told lennie in the barn before her fate ran out and that is what she believed that she would do one day in her life. All of helps prove through the lives of the ranch worker Steinbeck shows that dreams don’t always come true. The charters in this book show many signs of their dreams failing. One of theses charters is Candy. Candy is an old man that whose dream is to not feel old and useless. This makes him feel weak and vulnerable towards other charters. This is shown when the characters are in crooks room and they are all weak characters that are trying to feel more powerful over the other ones. They make Candy feel weak by showing that he is old and useless. This is also shown when they went to shoot his dog. They convinced him that it was also old and useless and that it deserves to die to make it feel better. Even though he …show more content…

They all had something to strive towards to get to their final goal. Like when lennie wanted to tend the rabbits so he didn’t do anything wrong also the same thing happened to other chareters lived this way to like when curley 's wife couldn’t talk to other people or Curley would get jealous. Also candy would strive to do everything right so that he would feel excepted and feel wanted. So in the end Steinbeck shows the true meaning of having dreams and how they can positively and negatively affect the characters in the

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