Look at George and Lennies Dream. Do you think that the dream had any Chance of coming true? What made It likely the dream would fail?

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Look at George and Lennies Dream.

Do u think that the dream had any

Chance of coming true? What made

It likely the dream would fail?

The book ‘Of Mice and Men’ is set mainly on the ‘Tyler Ranch’ in south of San Francisco in the Salinas Valley of California; during the Depression of the 1930s. The two main characters are Lennie Small and George Milton. George has looked after his mentally slow friend, Lennie, since Lennie's Aunt Clara died. They travel around together to work a various different jobs so that one day they might have enough money to buy a bit of land and be their own bosses ‘an live off the fatta the lan’. Unfortunately, every time they have a job, Lennie gets into some trouble that forces them to run away and find more work where no one knows them. The reader finds out that at the beginning of this story, they are running from a town called Weed, from which Lennie had a bit of trouble with a girl and a red dress.

Lennie and George are nearly opposites. George Milton is a small and sharp-witted man who travels with Lennie. George is pretty much a typical ranch hand. However, he is also clever enough to use his mind to plan the future and watch out for dangerous people who could ruin their dream. But he can’t always stop things from happening. Lennie Small is a tall man whose mind is slow; he will often lose concentration because of his child like attention span. His mind is similar to a young child; because of this his mental limitations are lower than normal and he is mentally retarded. Lennie doesn’t seem to be able to have full control of his emotions, and often won’t foresee the consequences of his actions before he does them and is easily panicked. Therefore gets himself into trouble, and can not learn from his mistakes.

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This unlikely pair’s dream shows signs of failing when Curley and his seductive wife start to appear and cause trouble. George can sense as soon as he meets Curley that he is trouble and tells Lennie to stay away from him and his wife. However, when Curley picks a fight with Lennie there wasn’t a lot George could do.

Their dream of having their own place is shared by some of the other ranch hands, which are more of outcasts around the ranch. Candy is the first to find out. Candy is a ranch hand who wanted to join ...

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