Created For AP Language and Composition
"Of Mice and Men"
  • Home
  • Figurative Language
  • Motifs
    • Rabbits
    • Dog
    • Mice
    • Hands
    • Eyes
  • Progressive Foreshadowing
  • Themes
    • American Dream
    • Loneliness
    • Prejudice

The American Dream (and the impossibility of it) 

  • Lennie: Lennie simply wishes to tend to rabbits on his own farm. That is all he has ever wanted.
  • George: George wishes to own a few an acre of land with Lennie and be able to sustain himself. He wants to be free of an inhospitable world.
  • Candy: Candy dreams of being useful once again. He is old and crippled and feels like he may be fired soon. Therefore, he latches onto George and Lennie's dream of owning a bit of land. They are his last hope.
  • Crooks: Crooks just wants to be treated equally. He is forced to live apart from the migrant workers and live a lonely life, simply because he is African-American.
  • Curley's wife: Dreams of fame and fortune. She wished to be a movie star, but had to settle for marriage to Curley.
  • Curley: Curley just wants to be respected by the workers, like Slim. He sees the power that Slim wields and wishes that it was his. 
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