Hopelessness

Hopelessness

Of Mice and Men is a novella written by the author John Steinbeck. The book was published in 1937. In this book there are a lot of ups and downs. The characters were talking about hopes and wishes, but there were lots of moments of hopelessnesses too, which may have led to the end of the book. Hopelessness is a common theme in this book mentioned in many moments.

Failures are one of the main points. George and Lennie don’t have a home and a family. They are always moving around the state california to search jobs. Lennie has a mind of a child and mostly he doesn’t know what he is doing. He gets in a lot of trouble in this book. The book starts with Lennie touching the dress of a girl in weed, which led George and Lennie to be fired. The mistakes, that were made, led to one failure to another. It is like a chain reaction.

    Unrealistic dreams are the next points. George and Lennie are dreaming about having a own small farm with animals and couple of acres of land. Candy, an old man, has heard about their conversation about having their own land, house and animals. He wants to join them and has money, which George and Lennie would need for the farm. The problem is that those dreams and hopes are the reasons why they would be disappointed. They don’t have enough money yet to buy a farm and they don’t have enough time to save the money, because it is going to take a lot of time. George doesn’t save his money, because he is going to the town and spending money in the town.

Giving up is the last main point. When Lennie accidentally killed Curley’s wife. He ran away and waited in the brush, which he should hide in if he gets in any trouble. When the other workers of the farm were trying to find Lennie to kill him, George went to the brush and met Lennie. Lennie wanted him to tell him the story about their own barn and how Lennie got to tend the rabbits. As George was telling the