Dreams in Of Mice and Men
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Curley“s wife has a different type of dream. Instead of something to call her own, she wants fame, fortune and admiration. She tells the three "bindle stiffs" about her offers of fame. She is unhappy with her husband, and his constant stories of who he“s going beat up next:
"Sure I gotta husban“. You allseen him. Swell guy, ain“t he?"
When she is talking to Lennie, alone in the barn, she recounts her obviously well told stories of her offers of fame. She seems to have a deep regret that she didn“t take up either of the men on their offers:
"If I“d went, I wouldn“t be livin“ like this, you bet."
She also deeply believes in what she was told by the man who may have been only trying his luck with this woman, not knowing she would take his word as gospel:
"He says he was gonna put me in
the movies. Says I was a natural."
Her monologue, broken by only a few words from Lennie, tells of her need for affection, and how she needs to be wanted. Curley“s wife does not ...
