In this essay, I am going to write about the social and historical

In this essay, I am going to write about the social and historical mise en scene of Of Mice and Men, and how the daydreams of veritable people in the ranch went wrong and ended in tragedy.In this essay, I am going to write about the social and historicalcontext of Of Mice and Men, and how the dreams of certain people inthe ranch went wrong and ended in tragedy. Most of the characters inOf Mice and Men admit, at one point or another, to dreaming of adifferent life. Before her death, Curleys wife confesses her desireto be a movie star. Crooks allows himself the for the fantasy ofhoeing a patch of garden on Lennies farm one day, and glaze over latcheson desperately to Georges vision of declareing a couple of acres.John Steinbeck wrote this novel because he wanted people to realisethe consequences of the great American depression amongst 1930 and1940. It showed how people interacted with each other and it showedthe misery of the economical depression and how poor and differentrace people were treated. In Of Mice and Men Steinbeck describes howpunishing and challenging the life of unsettled farmers could be. Justas George and Lennie dream of a better life on their own farm, thesefarmers dreamed of finding a better life in their world. The enunciatewhere they lived promised a climate for a longer growing season and itoffered more opportunities to harvest crops. Despite these promises,very few found it to be the land of fortune and plenty of whichthey dreamed.George and Lennie are migrant American labourers. George protects hisfriend from the insecure world and shares with him a dream of one daysettling down and farming their own land to live a better life. Thefarm that George describes to Len... ... why, even though he has reason to doubt Georgeand Lennies talk about the farm that they want to own, Crooks cannot wait on but ask if there might be room for him to come along and hoe inthe garden. However, his desires would never come true because of thetime he lived, a time where such dreams for him were impossible tobecome a reality.All of these dreams were typically American dreams where dreamers wishfor untarnished happiness, for the freedom to follow their owndesires. George and Lennies dream of owning a farm, which wouldenable them to sustain themselves, and, most important, offer themprotection from an inhospitable world, represents typically Americanideal. Their journey, which awakens George to the impossibility ofthis dream, sadly proves that Crooks is right that such paradise offreedom and safety are not to be found in this world.