Of Mice and Men Essay Response “Of Mice and Men is a depressing story, all of the characters fail to achieve what they want.” To what extent do you agree? Of Mice and Men is a depressing story, primarily because all of the characters fail to achieve what they want. George and Lennie’s dream of owning their own land and Lennie wanting his own rabbits to pet goes unfounded. Curley’s wife shares her …showed first 75 words of 870 total…

…showed last 75 words of 870 total…not a good, book, simply a depressing one that focuses on reality instead of fantasy. It was a very harsh reality of the time that dreams and goals that were created in peoples’ minds never left those minds. From this book I can conclude that the era the book was set in would have been a depressing time to be alive, and that hope is one of the only things to keep a person going.