Discuss the importance of dreams in "Mice and Men"
Dreams, there are two types of dreams. One of them is when you are asleep and you dream. The other kind is a dream, which represents ones ambition and hope. There is a name for this type of dream it is "The American Dream".
John Steinbeck had studied the myths of King Arthur and was interested in the nature of dreams in general and how people often secretly know that they will never come true but they keep it alive to motivate themselves before he wrote this novel. Through Mice and Men Steinbeck shows this theory through George because he only belived in their dream to keep Lennie motivated, and Lennie's motivation kept George's hope in their dream alive. Though when Lennie dies so does George's hope and the dream.
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