George wants to have lots of animals, which they can eat and he also would like to grow vegetables to eat and sell. ... Lennie is a childish, slow-witted man with a great love for animals. ... Lennie has a lot of love for animals, especially the small, cuddly and soft variety. But unfortunately for Lennie, he has a tendency to kill these animals without being conscious of it because he doesn't know his own strength. His obsession with these animals, especially rabbits, is what keeps him positive in life, aspiring to look after them. ...

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The American dream was a dream for many migrants heading from Europe to America. ... The American dream seemed far away. ... George deems that Lennie would be better off dead rather than caged up like and animal. ... Curley has halted the talk of the dream, which adumbrates that the dream will not become a reality after all. ... All the ranch workers have dreams they would like to fulfil, but they have no real idea how to obtain their dream. ...

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It is very obvious that all of these people have dreams. These dreams are shown in this novella as incompleted for everyone. George and Lennie's dream is to have a small ranch of their own and have small animals. Candy joins in this dream. ... Temporarily Crooks was also interested in this dream. ...

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Lennie and George dreamed up an idea for a perfect house in a perfect world. ... Lennie becomes obsessed and the dream house is all he eventually thinks about. ... Many of the things that happen to animals at the start of the book tell a grim story of what will repeat later to Lennie and other animals he kills. ... Whenever Lennie accidently kills animals, he lies about it to George by saying he found whatever it was already dead. ... He did not want Lennie to suffer but to dream of his perfect world where he didn't make mistakes. ...

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Lennie, the rough, instinctive character is violent and acts upon his first thought; as an animal. ... Animals act based upon instinct and their ideas to surviv. ... The dream was an important idea to Lennie. ... Lennie was the animal. He was a rugged beast the got in the way of other's dreams. ...

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Dogs are obedient animals, Candy's most likely obeyed his commands immediately as well. ... Moreover, Lennie is referred to as all sorts of animals in the novel, a dog being the point of focus at this moment. ... The death of Lennie could very well be the end of all of George's dreaming. Once Lennie died, so did the dream. ... But there is still the possibility that George went on with his life and continued to work for the dream that he and Lennie strived for. ...

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They have always had a dream of owning their own little place, where they can work for themselves, and not have to worry about other people. They have been dreaming about this all their lives, but now it seems like it may actually come true very soon. ... This was not a very fulfilling life for most people, and they always dreamed of something more, but knew they could never achieve it. ... For example, Lennie always wants to stroke a soft animal, yet it always gets killed because of his strength, this symbolizes his need to be comforted, but because of his size and lack of common sense he c...

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Lennie is a very loveable character, who has hope and dreams. ... Unlike Lennie, Charlie reaches his dream but ends up broken hearted when his dream doesn't last. Lennie had a soft spot for petting animals and soft things. ... In both cases their innocence and dreams were lost. ... In both cases innocence and dreams were lost. ...

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The tractors (cats) that plow over the farmers' land and the actual animal are used a few times in the novel to represent the merciless banks. ... The animal also faced obstacles such as a red ant which crawled on it and Tom Joad who captured it. ... Just as grapes can give that impression of freshness, so can the hopes and dreams of the migrants who think they'll get a new start in California. ... The good, fresh grapes that they dream of soon turn into bad, rotten grapes of wrath and bitterness since their journey turns into more of an obstacle course full of deaths and saddness. ....

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All the dreams George and Lennie have had together about a bit of land with their own garden and the thought's of peace and having to work for no one are scattered, all the hope lost. ... Here he starts to show the fiction in Lennie's story as he says through Crooks that Lennie is crazy and is just dreaming. ... All the animals needed to be taken care of and the garden could not just grow by itself without proper watering and mowing. ... But this would leave George with the animals and all the rest of the work which might come up (3B, Steinbeck, Page 59). ... This amount can not be m...

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He kills small animals just by stroking them. ... The dream is their hope for the future. ... Lennies' dream is to be with nature. ... His own dream is unrealistic. ... He knows that his dream can never become a reality and he is negative towards George and Lennies' dream because their dream is more promising than his own is. ...

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Clinging to each other in their loneliness and alienation, George and his simple-minded friend Lenin dream, as drifters will, of a place to call their own. ... Gentle and kind, Lennie nevertheless does not understand his own strength, and his love of petting soft things--like animals, dresses, and hair--leads to disaster This Story was the first story that I have read and like. ...

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The novel develops during the Great Depression and narrates the story of two laborers in California's fields, extremely different but united for a unique reason - the American Dream. ... To start with, George and Lennie share the same dream. ... It symbolizes the American Dream, a product due to the harsh social situation during the 1930's. ... In the book readers see Lennie's obsession regarding animals: "I don't know why I can't keep it. ... Without a doubt symbols such as settings and animals characters are great tools for Steinbeck's use of symbolism. ...

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The novel is set during the Great Depression and tells the story of migrant workers, who all have their own hopes and dreams. ... While George enjoys getting drunk and wasting his money, Lennie, on the other hand, adores animals and likes to pet them. Unfortunately, he forgets how strong he is and usually kills the animals. The two men do, however, have something in common; they both share the dream of one day owning their own farm. ... It is after this incident that Candy realizes that the dream shared by George and Lennie is never going to come true. ...

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Lennie's love for soft things was the cause of death for Curley's wife and the other animals that he came in contact with. ... As a result of Lennie dying, the dream that him and George had is also crushed. ... When Lennie dies, George has no reason to carry on dreaming about something that is no longer going to happen. ...

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Comparing George and Lennie George and Lennie are important characters in the novel Of Mice and Men, yet they are completely different. George and Lennie are pretty good friends, but it does not make them equal. They have too many differences between them. The major differences between th...

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Since Candy asked George and Lennie to share their dream he will not feel as lonely as he used to be. ... A book that shows this is John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, a story about two friends, that have a dream to live on there own farm, Lenny and George, who go to a farm where they see discrimination first hand. ... The protagonist in "Of Mice and Men" is both Lenny and George, as a unit. both of them are introduced to the reader at the same time, and, for most of the novel, they're never separated. in addition, both of them share the same dream of their own farm, and both of them ...

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The two are life long friends who dream of owning a farm with all of the money they save. ... He is the only black man on the ranch, and therefore the boss forces him to stay in the barn and live with the animals of the field. ...

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" In John Steinbeck's novel Of Mice and Men, George and his mentally disabled partner, Lennie, come close to accomplishing their American dream of purchasing a farm, but George's and Lennie's dream is overturned when Lennie accidentally kills their boss's son's wife (John Steinbeck 19). ... " George and Lennie, the journeying workers who came to the ranch one day with a dream of purchasing the small farm they will own as soon as they get the money together, like to think their new job will last at least long enough to get the money; but the reader knows fro...

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Of Mice and Men If you have read the novel 'Of Mice and Men' and are anything like me, then the novel will have held you captivated. During the 1930s, in which the novel was set, an economic disaster was taking place. It was very difficult to find a job at this time, because of this man-made catast...

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Scott Fitzgerald's, The Great Gatsby, and John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, are two novels that deal with the tragic culmination of the American Dream, personified through respective protagonists. ... This allusion of Lennie to a bear reinforces the common sentiment among the characters that he is more akin to an animal, with more brawns than brainpower. The allusion to an animal hence becomes one of Lennie's major character traits and thus it is crucial for the narrator to depict Lennie as such in his introduction. ...

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John Steinbeck's classic novel, "Of Mice and Men," was written in 1937 and has been critically praised ever since. Born in Salinas, California on February 27th, 1902, Steinbeck has written numerous masterpieces of fiction, including, "The Grapes of Wrath" and "East of Eden." His literature was great...

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