Of mice and men

two types of dreams: the first dream includes companionship, honesty and love. like the idea of a dream farm. however the second dream is more nightmareish, it includes being solitary and excluding all other human contact. this is the situation of crooks.

loneliness: different characters seek comfort and solace in different things- for candy it is his dog. for george and lennie it is each other; for crooks it is his pride and his unerring skill at pitching horses.

nature: the world of nature plays a large part in the events of the novel. lennie is himself very natural in that he has an animal like simplicity and innocence. the ranch hands lives are unnatural because they…