In Of Mice and Men all the characters have a dream. The American dream was a dream for many migrants heading from Europe to America. America was seen as the land of opportunity, a chance to get a piece of land and earn a living. It offered people a better standard of living.

The Wall Street crash occurred in 1929 when the stock markets plummeted causing 15 million people in America to become unemployed. During the 1930s, America suffered unprecedented droughts, causing acres of farmland to be left baron in a great dust bowl. This period of time was also known as the Great Depression. This affected the whole World for ten years. Men became desperate for work and would do anything to get a job, because of the need for work employers began exploiting their workers but the workers thought that it was better to have poor pay than none at all.

During the 1930s writers such as Steinbeck broke away from the usual style of writing

Crooks has been working on the ranch for years and has seen many migrant workers come for a job, trying to raise enough money to fulfil their American dream, buying a piece of land.

George and Lennie throughout Of Mice and Men have a dream of owning a farm. This dream is mentioned over and over again:

During section four in the novella Crooks joins the dream. His initial reaction when Lennie tells him of the dream farm is one of bewilderment:

“We’re gonna have a little house and a couple of acres an’ a cow and some pigs…”

George repeats the same story time and again to Lennie. How he has Lennie and Lennie has him to look after each other. However the readers acquire adumbrations that their dream will fail on numerous occasions:

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