Of Mice and Men
...plish the American dream. Buy some property with a little house, and be able to live of the land. “…we’re gonna have a little house and a couple of acres an’ a cow and some pigs and-”(O.M.A.M, P.15). Now is he so wrong in dreaming about his future? It’s sad that just because you’re a migrant worker people take you less serious. George describes the land and what’ll be on it, and what they’ll eat. George just wants the same dream that everyone else in American wants. Just because your black doesn’t mean you’re not equal, so why wasn’t Crooks equal? Crooks, the stable buck, just wants to be treated the same. “Ya see the stable buck’s a nigger” (O.M.A.M., P.23). That’s not any way to treat someone, even if they’re black. “Where the hell is that God damn nigger?” (O.M.A.M, P.32) Poor Crooks, he just gets name called and criticized no respect at all for the poor guy. You can only feel for a guy who’s been treated to the extreme, it’s unexplainable. Lennie is a big guy, little undereducated, but he too still can dream about tending those rabbits. Lennie can’t think of anything else but attending those rabbits, “I wish’t we’d get the rabbits pretty soon George” (O.M.A.M, P.10). The sweet guy wants to attend the rabbits and you probably won’t ever hear a w...