Steinbeck illustrates how gruelling, challenging, and often unrewarding the life of migrant farmers

could be
the more that they dream THE MORE DISTANT IT BECOMES the dream of living of the fatta of
the land really symbolised how poor materialistically there were. Mentally the held on to that
dream the dream that turned into a distant memory they were so poor they could not even
dream.
Overcome with thirst
but the reader senses that their friendship and devotion is mutual.
George ends the night by treating Lennie to the story he often tells him about what life will be like
in such an idyllic place.
t Slim, the skilled mule driver who wields great authority on the ranch. Slim comments on the
rarity of friendship like that between George and Lennie.
His enthusiasm for the vision of their future farm proves contagious as he convinces George,
Candy, Crooks, and the reader that such a paradise might be possible. But he is a character
whom Steinbeck sets up for disaster, a character whose innocence only seems to ensure his
inevitable destruction.
Of Mice and Men follows him toward a difficult realization that the world is designed to prey on
the weak
but eventually the predatory nature of the world asserts itself and George can no longer maintain
that belief. By shooting Lennie, George spares his friend the merciless death that would be
delivered by Curleys lynch mob, but he also puts to rest his own dream of a perfect, fraternal
world.
Candys dog serves as a harsh reminder of the fate that awaits anyone who outlives his
usefulness.
However, it also reinforces the novellas grim worldview
However, it also reinforces the novellas grim worldview
American dream is nothing but an illusion an illusion that became more distant as it seemed
more likely
Dreams that exist in a culture of exploitation anit going to be nothing but dreams
Steinbeck organises of mice and men structurally well with curleys wife we are told a lot about
her bfore we actually meet her e.g tart .. it only when we meet her that are perceptions change
and we being to sympathise with the character Steinbeck is trying to highlight that anybody can
prejudice it just natural. We get these negative impressions of her a predisposition is gained. You
can also related this back to fate and how these people are destined to fail because the stigma
and prejudice firmly attached to the wife and crooks
Ended his life with the visual dream that he desired death was better than the laborious job and
the is the closest they ever got to the American dream

Of mice and men is the thematic divide where spiritual is the dream of living of the fatta the land
and is this is used as the physician to escape their reality of their situation.
Spiritual vs physical
The physical side is the dog eat dog world that they were accustomed to.the world is like a form
of bacteria one that you can only treat so much before it becomes resistant at the time of lennies
killing the bacteria was became resistant.
There is a prevalent juxtaposition between the physica and spiritual world l as whenever
something bad happens in the physical world the dream is told as an antidote a way to escape
reality. But they could only escape reality so much before it caught up with them

George did the best thing as he allowed Lennie to be trapped with the fought of
achieving the American dream at the forefront of his mind. Despite his life being
ended it ended on a high as the chronology of physical then spiritual was
ended at spiritual for Lennie was the only one to live that American dream. Being
stuck happily in this phase. For George the loss of Lennie signifies the loss of the
antidote. Lennie was part of the American dream so the fact that he died meant
that escaping to the spiritual world was no longer an option therefore for George
he lost his friend and his only way of absconding the physical world.
However, it also reinforces the novellas grim worldview
American dream is nothing but an illusion an illusion that became more distant as it seemed
more likely
Dreams that exist in a culture of exploitation are not going to be nothing but dreams

The illusion has magnetic powers drawing in people who heard of the dream they
were so strong as it convinced George who was seen as sharp and Curly whose
knowledge was second to non aand even crooks who had even witnessed people
fail as trying to clinch the dream it gave hope to the hopeless with out it orwell
is admitted that the have succumbed to the illusion and now face a laborious life
with little reward