The dream is an essential part of the lives of George and Lennie. Explore how the power of the dream is presented in one other part of the novel. Use examples of the language the writer uses to support your ideas. (24)

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The dream is an essential part of the lives of George and Lennie. Explore how the power of the dream is presented in one other part of the novel. Use examples of the language the writer uses to support your ideas. (24)

Lennie’s insistence on talking about the dream with George while they are playing cards in the ranch house opens up another discussion in which George, similarly to the previous parts of the text, where George’s voice begins to grow warmer and Lennie encourages George to continue recalling the dream excitedly.

The first instance in which the dream is seen as an essential part of their lives is when Lennie ‘[drums] on the table with his fingers’, starting a rhythm in which George uses to recall their dream. The fact that Lennie constantly inquires about ‘how long’s it gonna be till we get that little place’ suggests that the dream is extremely significant to Lennie, up to the point where Lennie is constantly thinking about it and it is all he can think of, and this is reiterated when Lennie begs George to ‘Go on-  tell again, George’. The dream is implied as an essential part of their lives as in this part of the text Candy is nearby, witnessing their recall of their dream and he is also described as being deeply affected by it:

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“Old Candy turned slowly over. His eyes were wide open. He watched George carefully”

The fact that even Candy seems to be deeply affected by the dream suggests the power of the dream on George and Lennie; they are the ones who the dream originally belonged to and Candy’s awe is evidence for the fact that the dream has even more power over George and Lennie, becoming a significant and essential part of their lives.

George begins to change throughout the text, from his tired nature where he ‘sighed’ due to Lennie’s ignorance, suggesting that he could ‘remember anything ...

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