Lost Hope is like a contagious disease in the novel Of Mice and Men. Many of the characters have lost their hopes and dreams. Lennie, George, Candy, Curley and his wife all had hope at one point but lost it or a little piece of it as time progressed. The main source of their lost dreams is Lennie, not because he means to do it, but because his brain does not function normally and he does not realize the unbearable strength his hands have. .
One of the character who lost his dreams is George Milton, after his best friend Lennie who was supposed to help their dream come to reality is killed. The loss of his companion resulted in the loss of his hopes and dreams. His dream was to "have a little house and a couple of acres an" a cow and some pigs and live off the fatta the land." If George did not have to take care of Lennie "he woulda took his pay an" raised hell in a whore house, and he coulda set in a pool room an" played snooker" but, those are just words because he was never really exasperated at Lennie or annoyed of him, but really, he loved having him around. At the same time as George kills Lennie, George's dream slips out of his hand. .
Another character who lost his hopes and dreams due to a tragedy is Lennie Smalls. Lennie does not have any hope physically because of the ruff times, but mentally his hopes and dreams live in him until the moment he dies. Lennie, even though he did not know, he killed many peoples dreams. Firstly, by killing Curley's wife resulted in the loss of her fulfilling her dreams and Curley living his. Lennie would have died a painful death if George did not kill Lennie himself, and because George killed his best friend he will never be able to live the dream that Lennie and him once shared. Candy's hopes slowly faded away once he realized he had no place to go now because Lennie's mistake.
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The little farm is a vision of Utopia for George and Lennie.