Of Mice And Men Curley's Wife

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Within the 1937 Depression-Era novel, Of Mice and Men, scribed by John Steinbeck, he implements complex, multi-dimensional characters in which they mutually possess an American Dream, yet they are distinctive in their most aesthetic, indigenous form. Characters including Curley’s Wife, Crooks, and George Milton have always theorized their life in Utopian lifestyles, in the setting of America, but is oppressed by external and internal means that is explored throughout the literature. Notably, George, the co-protagonist, has such ambition to live in a domesticated household in contradiction to the vagrancy he experience, while carrying the weight of having a fraternal-paternal relationship with Lennie, a man approximately his age with an evident disability. His …show more content…

Someday—we’re gonna get the jack together and we’re gonna have a little house and a couple of acres an’ a cow and some pigs”. George’s aspiration of horticulturist, sharing with Lennie, was the most convenient and predictable to occur due to his skin complexion, accumulating in preserved cash, and collaborating with his camaraderie and Candy, the venerable indentured worker with an evident atrophy. Subsequently, down the socio-economic pyramid, Curley’s wife of the American Dream is to be an actress in Hollywood Film Cinema. Reminiscent of a man convincing that she has the becoming appearance to be a potential film glamor, she anticipated diurnally on whether for the call to embrace and emerge in the cinematic experience; the cinematic experience that she desired never came true. Also in the text, Curley’s wife confessed, “Coulda been in the movies, an’ had nice clothes—all them nice clothes like they wear. An’ I coulda sat in them big hotels, an’ had pitchers took of me. When they had them previews I coulda went to them, an’ spoke in the radio, an’ it wouldn’ta cost me a cent because I was in the pitcher. An’ all them nice clothes like they