'I could get along so easy and so nice if i didn'y have you on my tail. I could live so easy and maybe have a girl.'
The dream reveals a lot about the characters, it shows how youthful and immature Lennie is. He keep wanting to hear it, just like a kid. He knows it like the back of his hand but he always prefere's to hear George tell it to him.
'Lennie said carftily-"Tell me like you done before.'He also has very childish actions when George tells the story,
'Lennie giggled with happiness'
'Lennie gave a cry of terror.' These actions are both very childish.
In the dream George is very cautious and much more mature compared to Lennie, he is the one who has to do all the thinking about the dream. He was the one who managed to find the plot of land and the one who got him and Lennie jobs at the ranch. It is a very one-sided relationship between the two, George makes all the decisions and Lennie goes along with them. Without George, Lennie would find it very hard to survive, George knows this and he feels it is his duty to look after Lennie.
'"He's my...cousin. I told his old lady I'd take care of him."' George uses Lennis's Aunt Clara when ever he want Lennie to take him seriously. Lennie then does what George says.
'"Your Aunt Clara wouldn't want you running off by yourself, even if she is dead.
At the start when the dream is first revealed to the reader, it seems like they have no chance at it. It seemed like it was only a dream they had.
'They looked at one another, amazed. This thing they had never really believed in was coming true,' As the story went on, it started to get more realistic. When Candy had got in on the dream it seemed like the had a really gd chance of it happening.
'"Jesus Christ! I bet we could swing her"'
Steinbeck conveys the dream effectively, he shows the importance of it well. By bringing it into the novel so early it makes the readers understand the importance of it. Then when it is mentioned again later in the next chapter, people are made to feel that they really want this dream.