The American Dream: a good life for all who are kind and courteous, enough money to live on, and freedom. In the book Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck recounts George and Lennie's dream: to have something of their own and to be relatively self-sufficient. Steinbeck wrote this book to show the plight of the working poor to those who have enough money to buy the book. He invented two typical characters, but they are not quite invented, because he was the typical person at the time: in those days it is not difficult to find an ambitious young man with a big dream. For George and Lennie, unfortunately, this dream never comes true. After all, it was mostly a lullaby that George had created to calm Lennie, to give him something to hold on to, to give him hope. George uses this "lullaby" to get Lennie to work hard, behave properly, and stay out of trouble. Throughout the novel, we gradually learn that for these two unlucky people, achieving their dreams will be impossible and why. Steinbeck says that Lennie is mentally deficient, enormous, and, as Curley's wife says, "just like a big baby" (90). George is smarter, smaller and has taken care of Lennie since the death of his Aunt Clara. The two travel together, rely on each other and love each other like brothers. They are also both looking for the same thing: the American dream. They want a house for themselves, a little land and rabbits. But they are not at the right time to set out in search of their dream: millions of others have the same ambitions and few of them actually realize their dreams. George seems to know this, but he has become so accustomed to telling Lennie the story that it seems he has started to believe it too. But he keeps fighting, wanting his dream to come true and repeats... middle of paper ......e and says, “Jump in.” And he jumps. I didn't know how to swim a single stroke. He almost drowned before we could catch him. And he was so nice to me for removing it. Clean forgot that I told him to intervene. Well, I didn't do anything like that again. (40). The two rely on and need each other, like friends, like brothers. Although it was never achievable, the dream kept George and Lennie alive. Deep down, George knew it would be impossible to live his dream: “I think I knew that from the beginning. I think I knew we would never do it” (94). He knows he will never have the farm, but just thinking about it transports him and Lennie to their happy place and makes them forget all the difficulties they face. It gives them hope, which pushes them forward and convinces them to live, whatever the conditions. And that was all the dream could be, and it ended up being.