Hi Sean,
I'll get you
started, but I think you're fully capable of getting a few
yourself.
Just to make sure you understand what you're
looking for, within the context of OMAM, is that America holds endless possibilities. In
the words of James Truslow Adams in his book The Epic of
America:
The
American Dream is "that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and
fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement. It
is not a dream of motor cars and high wages, but a dream of social order in which each
man and each woman shall be able to achieve the fullest stature of which they are
capable of, and be recognized by others for what they are, regardless of the
circumstances of birth or
position.
If we take a look
at George, when he reflects on what he and Lennie will have, he is expressing the
possibility of the American dream:
Well,' said George, 'we'll have a big vegetable
patch and a rabbit hutch and chickens. And when it rains in the winter, we'll just say
the hell with goin' to work, and we'll build up a fire in the stove and set around it
an' listen to the rain comin' down on the
roof...'
Given that George
and Lennie have a lived a poor live and migrant farm workers, these commodities and
comforts will mean a great deal to them.
Think about
Lennie's "catch phrase", Crooks's conversation with Lennie in the barn, and you should
be on the right track.
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