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Dreams (Lennie (His childlike demeanour shows the dreams of the people…
Dreams
Lennie
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Lennie's hallucination of the giant rabbit and his aunt Clara may represent Lennie waking up or breaking away from his childlike demeanour to realise the truth. The truth that as his life fades away so do his dreams which he would never achieve realising the true hopelessness of it.
‘Lennie sat in the barn and looked at the little dead puppy …’
could be a foreshadowing of their dreams never coming true
Curley's wife
Shows the dreams of women and one of the only feeble hope that they can hold on to to earn money or to become well known is through the movie industry.
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Candy
Even though he is old, he still holds onto the American Dream and even offers to sacrifice his entire life's savings to achieve the American Dream with George and Lennie
Shows that no matter how old a person is they still hold on to their dreams no matter how pathetic or hopeless they may be.
The title "Of Mice and Men" links to a Robert Burns poem about mice building a home for their future in a field only to have it mowed down by the farmer.
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Crooks
Could represent those who have already given up on their dreams/sees no hope in the American Dream anymore
‘Nobody gets to heaven, and nobody never gets no land.’
Despite the efforts to achieve their dreams, these remain unfulfilled. The death of Curley's wife ends any chance of making the characters' dreams come true.
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Context: As they are itinerant ranch hands it means that most men have no stability, home, possessions, friendships, so the dream of owning a piece of land often keeps the men going.