What is the universal dream in Of Mice and Men?

Question: What is the universal dream in Of Mice and Men!?

And how does it tend to contridict itself!?
also, what is the larger picture in this story!?
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The universal dream in "Of Mice and Men" is to have ones own place to live, no one telling them what to do and to work for themselves!. There are so many different answers to the larger picture in the story, what I tend to notice in the story is how people are treated!. Lenny is an man who is a little slow and so he is treated like nothing more than an animal and eventually shot like a dog at the end!. The black man is told by Curly's wife that she can have him lynched with just a word!. Curly's wife is the one everyone runs to get justice for in the end, but she was the cause of all the problems!. She was trying to go after Lenny, not knowing how his mind worked!. She was always trying to flirt with the men and she got what she deserved and yet everyone rushed to defend her because she was a wealthy white woman!. Wealth does not mean you are a better person and even the poor have pride!. But the novel also shows the equality of black men, white workers, white upper class, and handicapped men!. And it also shows a harsh reality, that the American dream is not availible to everyone!. When they talk about their plans to have the farm everyone tells them it is a common dream, but never achieved!.Www@QuestionHome@Com