Compare varying ideas of "place" in John Steinbeck´s Of Mice and Men. How does the dream of "a place" figure in the lives of characters in the novel? There are at least four ideas of "place" in Of Mice and Men to be considered. The first idea could be the "place" considered as the setting of the beginning of the story, where we see an idilic place, a wood full of trees, but also …showed first 75 words of 1284 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1284 total…kills Lennie. Lennie was what gave George´s life a purpose and finally Lennie has gone to a place where the vision of paradise is real, because Candy´s, George´s, Crooks´and Curley´s wife´s desires cannot be found in this world. That dream of “a place” as an Edenic-vision has disappeared. Curley´s wife is like Eve in the original Eden myth, and she leads to the destructrion of this “place” dream.