... seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him."" (Fitzgerald 189). Then, John Steinbeck illustrates the impossibility of the American dream in his novel Of Mice and Men, through the lives of his central characters. Set during the Great ... homeless and continuously migrating workers. They relentlessly work, never reaping the benefits of their work. They dream of living "off the fatta the lan'- (Steinbeck 14) and the opportunities owning land would bring. In George's life he works for someone else who he must be subservient to and mus...

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