All the characters at one point in the book express their dreams, Curleys wife, Lennie, George, Candy all have dreams. The novel 'Of Mice and Men' by John Steinbeck is set in the Salinas valley, California. During the collapse of the New York Wall Street market known as the depression years, hoards of migrant worker came to California from parts of America in search of work. The ranch itself is a microcosm of the society …showed first 75 words of 828 total…

…showed last 75 words of 828 total…to the future events. Overall Steinbeck shows us an unlikely friendship that seemed that it would never last, how long would have George have been able to look after Lennie? The writer use of other characters involvement in the story made it for a second possible. However the reader new all along what his actual intensions where to end the story 'was it really pointless or not'. Bibliography: Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck