How Does Steinbeck Present Curleys Wife In Of Mice And Men

Every person in the world has a dream, no matter how small, how large, or how smart you are, you have a dream. You have a wish that something about your current situation would be different. John Steinbeck uses dreams to affect the reader in his novel, Of Mice and Men. Set on a stunted ranch during The Great Depression, an unlikely pair travel from ranch to ranch searching for work. Lennie, a large but unwise man, and George, a small yet knowledgeable character. They stick together to live through the ups and downs of their lives. The real question is, what keeps the two going, what perseveres them to continue on together? Steinbeck shows through his novel that no matter when or where you live, how you live, the color of your skin or the wisdom

Someone you don’t necessarily want to associate yourself with. Steinbeck shows Curley’s Wife as an example of a misfit, someone who really has no one else to talk to, and someone who really just wants to let out all of her feelings. She is the only woman mentioned on the ranch, and this can cause some issues. She has no desire to be Curley’s Wife, and she has no desire to live on this ranch with these misfits. Steinbeck uses many different characters to play out his theme of dreams through the novel. “...He says he was gonna put me in the movies. Says I was a natural. Soon’s he got back to Hollywood he was gonna write to me about it.” (Steinbeck 88) She dreams of becoming a hollywood star, a movie star. She dreams of being somewhere else. Steinbeck uses many different people to convey one theme, dreams affect

Lennie has a big heart, yet not a lot of knowledge. Even though they are an unlikely pair, George still sticks with Lennie through everything..Their dream is to live on their own ranch where they can farm and Lennie can tend his rabbits like George always said. “...Go on George! Tell about we’re gonna have in the garden and about the rabbits in the cages and about the rain in the winter and the stove, and how thick the cream is on the milk like you can hardly cut it. Tell about that George.” (Steinbeck, 14) As you are reading you can just hear the excitement in Lennie’s voice when he tells of the rabbits that he will tend and the ranch they will live on. Steinbeck uses an unlikely pair, like George and Lennie, to show that everyone