THEME Through the novel Of Mice and Men, written by John Steinbeck, I have acquired many valuable lessons about life. This novel has numerous themes: the beauty of a dream, friendship, and loneliness, and about people feeding on to a weaker target. However, the foremost theme of this novel is that a dream, no matter how impossible it is to obtain, can build a friendship and grant significance to life. George and Lennie dreamed of …showed first 75 words of 504 total…

…showed last 75 words of 504 total…Lennie's dream of the farm and his dependence on George, “’They come, an’ they quit an’ go on; an’’ every damn one of em’s got a little piece of land in his head. An’ never a God damn one of ‘em ever gets it.’” Having just admitted his own vulnerabilities, that he is a black man with a crooked back who longs for companionship, he still tries to point out Lennie’s own weaknesses.