Of Mice And Men Hopes And Dr
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Hopes and dreams are both the fuel and fire in Of Mice and Men. Stienbeck uses these to thicken the plot and make the reader take large interest into the character�s outcomes.
George and Lennie have a dream. �Someday�we�re gonna get the jack together and we�re gonna have a little house and a couple of acres an� a cow and some pigs.� [George, p. 15] Being lowly ranch hands, they dream of a better life, where they don�t work for anyone but themselves. George, the much smarter one of the two, is quite optimistic about it. It seems that he has already talked with someone about buying his or her land. Lennie, the mentally retarded brute, is childly amused of the dream. He loves soft things, and touching them; and when George tells of the rabbits they will have on the farm, Lennie shivers in joy.
Candy is a much older man, who has lost his hand. He isn�t worth as much to the ranch�s employer as the other men, so he fears unemployment. He too dreams of a better life. One...
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