Failed Dreams Social Injustice In Of Mice

Failed Dreams. Social Injustice In .Of Mice And Men. And .Animal Farm. Essay, Research Paper

When Europeans left Europe for America they were told that

everyone would be landowner, they would live like kings and the streets were

paved with gold. Everybody would live equally. This was a wonderful dream for

the Europeans fleeing from the class system of their home countries. .Mice and

Men. shows us how far this dream is from reality. There is four examples I.m

using to show how different it was, George, Crooks, Curly’s wife and Candy. Georges dream is to own a farm or a ranch of his own so he

could be his own boss and wouldn.t have to be pushed round by other ranch

owners who he works for now. He says to George, ..... .We.re gonna

have a little house and a couple of acres an. a cow and some pigs…. Its likely that before the depression that George lived of

owned his own farm and was happy there because he was his .own man. and he

could do what he wanted when he wanted. Because of this dream George resents authority, when he

first meets Curly, the ranch owners son, he spoke to him in an .insulting

manner. and refuses to give Curly a straight answer. ...... His life as a

farm worker is very hard, he works every day except Sunday and only gets fifty

dollars a week. All week the farm workers would toil the land for the ranch

owners and would be paid a tiny percentage of the profit. They were very lonely

people, with only their colleagues at the ranch and the women at the local .cat

house. for company, no wife, children and no family. George recognizes this and

I think this is why he travels with Lennie, George says, ....... .Guys like us

who work on ranched are the loneliest guys in the world.. George thinks that when he has his dream he wont be lonely

and more, he maybe would .get a girl. and he would be happy. ...... George also

dreams of a better place for Lennie who is mentally about 6 years old, George

take it on himself on himself to look after Lennie and rescue him when he gets

in trouble, which is very often. When Lennie had just ‘accidentally’ killed

someone, George decides to put Lennie out of his ‘misery’ and kill him. Just

before he does he tells Lennie, ... .Ever.bodys gonna

be nice to you. Ain.t gonna be no more trouble. Nobody gonna hurt anybody nor

steal from .em.. .This is Georges

dream for Lennie, that he would be better cared for and nobody would be

horrible to him and he wouldn.t get into any more trouble. That people would

take time to understand him like he did. Crooks dream is to be treated like a human and be accepted.

Because he.s black he’s always been bullied and picked on by the other people

in the ranch. He is never allowed to go out with the other people in the ranch

and has to stay in his own room in the barn, he hates everyone at the ranch

because they treat him badly, he says to Lennie, .They play cards in there, but I can.t play because I.m

black. They say I stink. Well, I tell you, you all stink to me.. .Because Crooks is so

lonely he reads a lot, in his library he owns the book California Civil code

1905. I think he has this because he wants to find out the rights he has and if

there is anything he can do to be accepted. While talking to Lennie, Crooks reminisces of his childhood.

How his father owned a chicken ranch and the white children used to come and he

would play with them, and how most of them didn.t care about the colour of his

skin and that they were nice to him. How of instead of how he slept all alone

now, he used to sleep with his two brothers, he recalls. .They was always near me, always there. Used to sleep right

in the same room, right in the same bed-all three.. He was happy in the past, dignified, because he wasn.t alone

and he was treated equally. Curley.s wife, in the whole novel we never hear her name,

and is always referred to as Curley.s wife. This makes her sound like she is

Curley.s property, like Curley.s shoes or Curley.s horse. I also says that

maybe she doesn.t deserve one, that when she married Curley she got a name.

This reflects on her dream of equal rights for women. She is a very lonely person; she has no one to talk to

except the men on the ranch who don.t really listen to her. So to make them

listen to her, or pretend to in most cases, she dresses provocatively to get

attention. However Candy and Whit see her as a .tart. and .jail-bait. and she.s

always giving the .eye.. Even Curly doesn.t notice her; he still goes out to

the .cat houses. with the other ranch workers, instead of staying with his

wife. She seems to be hurt by this, she says..

.Think I don.t know where they all went. Even Curley. I know where they

all went.. Curley.s wife.s dream is to be a star, when she was young,

she was asked to go on a show, but her mother wouldn.t let her. Film work was

one of the few types of work you could get as a woman, it was every girls

dream, but i

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