In the novel “Of Mice and Men” by John Steinbeck, people are portrayed as not working hard enough to achieve the long-term goals or dreams they set for themselves themselves. This idea is shown several times throughout the story. It starts with Lennie and George wanting to buy their own farm, to do this they will have to earn enough money to start the farm. They show no effort to realize this dream of theirs, they spend all the money they earn on women and beer. Lennie's dream is to care for rabbits on the farm they hope to own one day. His problem is that he has a problem with animals. When Lennie pets an animal, he usually ends up killing it, and makes no effort to show a little more care for the poor creatures. Curley's wife also dreamed of becoming a movie star, but didn't because she decided to marry Curley instead. People now are very similar if not completely different. Today people obviously still have long-term dreams and goals that they give up on or don't want to work hard enough to achieve them because they are so worried about the future that ...