‘Of Mice And Men’ explores the ways in which both immigrants andAmericans tried to conquer and obtain their goal in life, which inthis case was to try and attain their own the American Dream. I willalso explores ways in how the American Dream is central to the noveland how Steinbeck reflects the society at the time.
In the early 1900’s the object that determined the wealth of a family,the object that was mentioned in every conversation all over the worldand the object that was every man’s most wanted desire, was land. Allaround the world people heard that land was given away for free whenyou set foot on American soil. This became known as the AmericanDream. Many people would sell all their possessions just to buy a oneway ticket to America in the hope of finding a piece of land, but theywere misinformed. Land was not given away for free, because of thisand the fact that people would arrive without a job or money, theAmerican Dream often became a nightmare. ‘They come, an’ they quit an’go on, an’ every damn one of them has got a piece of land in theirhead.’ People started moving around the country and everywhere theygo, they would still be in search of their dream, the dream of someday having their own piece of land. Many people America at the timecould never find job to earn money and very often never achieved theirAmerican Dream because of this, depression started to sink into theminds of the population and the period of the great depressionstarted. In this period, most people lost the hope of becoming abetter person with a better lifestyle, therefore just wondering aroundthe country with no aim to their liv…
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However, some people did achieve their American Dream even though’they probably had an advantage like being wealthy, but this was inthe minority.'(www.google.com – America in the 1030’s) Steinbeckshowed us an example of this through the ranch owner that owns Tyler’sranch having achieved his American Dream and therefore his son Curleyhas an advantage, already being wealthy and having piece of land.
We can see that Steinbeck has researched problems during the time anddifferent types of American Dreams. He then created a character to fiteach example and then created a story around it. The reason whySteibeck wrote this book was probably to let people in America and allaround the world more aware of the problems in America. As well as towarn other people not to immigrate to America.
