Of Mice and Men

***~Of Mice and Men~***
Do you have an unrealistic dream? What do you do if your dreams are hard to come true? Could you accept the truth of that? In the novel , Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, It take place during the Great Depression in the United States, Everyone struggled to survive. In the era of this story, it is destroy the hope and unfortunate the American dreams. According to the story, the characters in this story had a dream in which they were unable to carry out. They are not able to have their dreams come true. For example, there are George, Candy and Crook who

could not reach their dreams and disappointed about their life.

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George is one of the characters who is disappoint with his dream. George is an intelligent, kind man. He is a fairly sized man who is not incredibly brilliant but has good common sense. He is Lennie's companion, and was asked to look after Lennie by Lennie's Aunt Clara before she died. Since then, he has travelled around, looking for work with Lennie. George has a dream of saving enough money to someday get a palce of their own and make Lennie dream come true that he want to tend rabbits by himself in the farm. He is dreaming of owning a house with Lennie. When Lennie dead, it made him different from the other lonely workers, as well as his own dream and admit that it has gone hopelessly awry. His new burden is hopelessness and loneliness, the life of the homeless ranch worker.

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Candy was among the ones who could hardly manage the struggle to survive during the Depression. His age has robbed his usefulness .Candy is a very old, weathered man who has been working on the ranch for years. He befriends George and Lennie and they confide to him their dreams of having their own place. Candy tells them that he has saved up a descent sum of money and asks if he can tag along in the adventure if he pays his share. He offers to give them a substantial sum of money to buy the house and also let him stay with them. He is dreaming of settling down and living independently. After Lennie dead, He asks George if it is still possible to buy the house, but his dreams are shattered when George says it isn't. Finally, the farm which has once seemed so real is now gone.

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Crooks is quite intelligent, but lonely character because he is black. Most of the men have a lot of prejudice against him because of different colour, he has to stay in a room on his own. He is a black person so he has an oppression than the white worker. He become quite bitter and cynical. This is why when Lennie and Candy tell him about their plan to buy a house. He is hopeless but he has a dream, too. He want to have a plce of this own , and do farm work by himself. Crooks withdraws his offer to lend his support when Lennie and George buy their home. Finally, He can’t reach his dream because there is a tragedy happened with Lennie before.
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Their dreams were not capable come true, but there are feeling full of hope. The problem is because they have not the power to solve. They have big dreams in life but it is difficult and bitterly disappointment and unmotivated. All dreams are unrealistic. All in all, three characters could not make their dreams come true because they are too big and it is hopeless for the men like them to reach their dreams.