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What is your understanding of the American dream and how does Steinbeck show the dream will never be realised
and in all the glitz and stars up there in Hollywood.
5. Foreshadowing
Steinbeck finally shows the dream will never be realised by foreshadowing it, We anticipate that Lennie will kill Curley’s wife because we just know that it would happen sooner or later, the day would come, there would always be a “Curley's wife” that would temp Lennie and then he would kill her. The foreshadowing starts when they come to the brush and George tells Lennie to hide in the brush if anything happened because he is half expecting something bad to happen. It also adds to when they run out of weed and something like that or worse would happen soon. The killing of the poor defenceless puppy by Lennie also is foreshadowing it by showing he still kills things by accident. The killing of candy’s dog is also a big factor since we hear candy tell George that he should have shot the dog himself which is foreshadowing the event where George even takes the same gun and in the same way he shoots Lennie in the back of the head just like when they killed candies dog.
Another big foreshadowing event is this trouble with Lennie and Curley because Curley hates big people and we know that eventually something bad will happen and it will bring trouble. Also in the way Curley’s wife is an obstacle to the dream because she’s so flirtatious towards Lennie and other people and since Lennie can’t fight back well she takes advantage of him.