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    John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men and Dreaming

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    In five pages this paper analyzes the dreams that are unfulfilled in this classic American novel by John Steinbeck. There is also an outline included.

    Name of Research Paper File: D0_BBdmcemn.doc

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    dreams serve a purpose? Through the use of the novel, Mice and Men, this discussion will examine the nature, and question the need of dreams. Outline follows text.  BBdmcemn.doc The "dreaming" OF MICE AND MEN (1937): JOHN STEINBECK Written by B. Bryan Babcock for the Paperstore, Inc., April 2001 Note to  student: your outline follows the text. Decide if you want to put it in front of the text - your call, Introduction Steinbecks 1937 novel of Mice and  Men is a classic study in lost or unfulfilled dreams . Do we have different dreams at different times of our lives? Is it possible for a group of  people to share a dream? Can dreams be fulfilled? Do dreams serve a purpose? Through the use of the novel, Mice and Men, this discussion will examine the  nature, and question the need of dreams. All characters in the novel have their own dream Dreams have a very large role in this novel. There is the Great  American Dream overall - "there is a place out there that will be mine." The subset of this great dream is also that "I, as an individual, will no longer  feel lonely." All characters seem to have a variant of this dream as well, whether the place is, that which will allow them to be, as they perceive themselves,  as Curleys wife with the wayward dream of acting. George and Lennie have a dream that they will share a safe and warm place. The dream "place" for  Crooks is one where color either has rights, or color does not matter. Overlap of metaphor and dream By its very definition a metaphor is one thing that stands for 

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