Steinbeck uses many themes and morals in his writing. Whether he has intentions to add many of these themes and morals is controversial. There very well could be “covert” or “overt” themes throughout the text, thus meaning he wasn’t aware that the text could be analyzed in this fashion. Now whether one chooses to “read the lines” or “read between the lines” may determine how the text is portrayed to you, the reader. I …showed first 75 words of 1048 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1048 total…the rest of the story and make for an important underlying theme. They serve the purpose of keeping the reader captivated to see what will happen next. Now whether George ever got his own place and found his own woman we will never know, but we do know that if Steinbeck had followed up the story that we would be reading to find out all the details of how each character’s dream turned out.