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and unlikely friends. They are day laborers. One of them--Lennie--is childlike and has a very low I.Q., something that would get him into a serious situation as the work unfolds.
George protects Lennie to an extent but also befriends him. The two go about their daily lives trying to make money just to get by. Yet, they do have dreams
and that is the crux of the conflict. Lennie and George someday want to own a farm together and later on, another character wants to go in on it.
Like so many other stories in fiction and in real life, drifters go about their workday while they dream of a better future. Today, the dream usually involves winning the
Lotto. In fact, there are hundreds of Lennie and Georges in the world. In the story, these two simple men only have the desire for a normal life. They want
to make money and they long for stability. Yet, in employing a Marxist analysis, one can see that there is more going on in the story. It is more than
just two men and a dream. There is a phenomenon where there are people who are rich and people who are poor. These day laborers are obviously the ones who
are trying to get by and are juxtaposed to the people who are willing to hire them. The landowners are the ones who are considered more in line with the
rich group. While perhaps they are not rich as most people would think the term denotes, there is certainly a dichotomy present in this book. A student submits the
following thesis: "Marxist Criticism will allow for a close examination of class oppression, economic conditions, and the futility of the American dream." Here, one can see that the story depicts
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