The American Dream The American dream is an ideal of living. Freedom being one of the factors, people come to this country in the hopes of being free. Wealth is another, people strive to make one more dollar. An ideal that every american citizen should have is an equal opportunity to achieve success and prosperity through hard work. The American dream is shown in both The Great Gatsby and in Mice and Men.
The Great Gatsby starts with the main actor Nick Carraway moved to New York's west egg to start in the bound business. He started renting a small house next to a huge mansion owned by mysterious man named Jay Gatsby. Mr.Gatsby throws the biggest parties every weekend and nobody is invited they just show up. One day Mr.Gatsby sent one …show more content…
The book starts off with the two men walking down a path and stopping at creek to rest. George warns Lennie not to drink too much water “Lennie, for God’ sakes don’t drink too much” (Steinbeck 3). Lennie then asks George to tell him the story about the rabbits,and the house. As George was telling the story Lennie would interrupt and tell parts of the story. It is clear that Lennie has a mild mental disability,and is the reason that George takes care of him. The next day they make it to the ranch and an older man named Candy brings them to the boss of the ranch. The boss assigns them to work with with a group under the man named slim.by the end of the first work day slim gives lennie a puppy. That night Carlson convinces candy to let him shoot his old dog smily. Curley the boss’s son came into the bunkhouse and asked if they had seen his wife. Curly leaves to go check the barn for his wife. When he returns to the bunkhouse he wants to vent his anger so he attacks Lennie. Curley hits him a few times and then george urges Lennie to fight back, Lennie grabs curley's hand and breaks it with no problem. Slim then takes curley to the hospital and tells curley to say it got caught in a machine. On sunday afternoon while all the guys are in a horseshoe tournament. Lennie is sitting in the barn petting the lifeless puppy he once owned. Curley’s wife then enters the barn, lennie then hides in fear of her. She reassures him to not be afraid of her. Lennie then starts talking about rabbits, she asked why he liked rabbits so much he replied “ I like to pet nice things” (Steinbeck 90). She then tells lennie he can touch her soft hair, when she told him to stop he would not let go and with his strength he easily broke her neck. Lennine left the barn to go hide at the creek the stopped at before. Candy is the one who found her body and told george. George then proceeded to go to the creek where Lennie was at. When