All the characters in Of Mice and Men have dreams. Though, the title of book does effectively tell us that these are unnattainable dreams:
The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men
Gang aft agley, (often go awry)
An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain,
For promis'd joy!
Lennie dreams of "tending to the rabbits", and George too dreams of one day living "off the fatta the lan'" Candy joins them in this dream, which is his only escape from the loneliness he suffers after the shooting of his dog.
Crooks dreams of one day being able to speak to other men, without them judging him for his race; Curley's Wife clings onto her dream of being in the movies, with "with all them nice clothes like they wear", because she is not happy married to Curley, an unloving man
Unfortunately, none of these characters will reach their dreams, proving the harsh reality of the American dream: "An' never a God damn one of them ever gets it [the patch of land]"
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