"Drops Of Jupiter" By: Train Theme: Dream This song represents many of the dreams that are shown through the story “Of Mice and Men”. For example, Curly’s wife’s big dream was to become a Hollywood big picture actor. In this excerpt from the story "he says I was a natural. Soon’s he got back to Hollywood he was gonna write to me about it”(pg.88), she explains her past relationship with an actor who fooled her about making her a star which lead to her being with Curly so she can get away from her hometown to start over. She also said to Lennie "Coulda been in the movies, an' had nice clothes - all them nice clothes like they wear. An' I could sat in them big hotels, an' had pitchers took of me...". (pg. 89) She talks about being disappointed to be with Curly she could've had a better life not in this place. This relates to "Drops Of Jupiter", by Train through the lyrics in the second to last stanza of the song And tell me, did you fall for a shooting star, One …show more content…
This song explains their travel due to Lennie’s accusation of “raping” the girl in the red dress so they decided to reduce conflict with moving to start over. In this quote from page 21 George says "We hadda walk ten miles. Says we was here when we wasn't. We couldn't get no rides in the morning" this is associated with this "Travelin' Man" because in the beginning of this song the first line is “I'm a travelin' man Made a lot of stops all over the world”, which is a great match because both George and Lennie had to stop to rest a bit in the woods on their trip from Weed then continue their long journey for another 10 miles. All in all this song is outgoing just like the two characters in the story who are adventurous. Lennie and George had very high aims for their lives like getting a house, being able to be prosperous and living