What is the American dream? Everybody has an American dream, and that dream is affected by who that person is and what that person wants to do with their life. In the novella Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, every character has a different dream then an other character. One characters dream sticks out more then the others. The American dream of the unnamed wife of Curley is to become independent and to be noticed.
Cutley's wifes dream becomes more noticible throughout the novella. At the beginning of the story she is first introduced as being a tramp and to be "[kept] away from." Actually she is trying to be noticed through her flirtatious poses. This gives off the presence of her being a whore. George says "[Curley's wife could] clear out for twenty bucks." By judging Curley's wife by how she acts blocks out her real self and hides her real dream. Her real dream becomes more visiable only if someone could look past her outer appearance.
Curley's wifes dream of being noticed and to feel like a wanted person had been put to a hault. Curley's wife says "that a guy told [her] he could put [her] in pictures." This made her dream become more visiable because she wants to be noticed and fame is one of the best ways for a person to do this. Except for her family and her meeting Curley caused her dream to decline. One thing that put her dream to a hault was as she thinks "[her] old lady stole [the letter]." The letter she was waiting for to get to be put into pictures. If the letter was stolen that could have been the start of the decline of her dream. When Curleys
Curley's wife does try to put herself out fufill her American dream. When Curley's wife enters "the doorway [and] cuts off the sunshine" she is only trying to be noticed. She wants to just talk to the guys. She goes to the guys to be noticed but they just turn her away. When around Lennie she tries to be friendly but Lennie keeps "[interuping about] not getting to tend the rabbits." She does try hard to be friendly to Lennie but he doesn't notice that she's trying to do this. Trying to fufill her dream she tries to be friendly to everyone.
Curley's wife had the dream to become noticed, but this is in a way impossible for her to do, due to get family and her realationship with Curley. She was dragged away from her dream and can never fufill it since she was killed by Lennie in the barn. She had a dream like everybody has about being noticed. She failed her dream when she had married Curley, even though to her "he ain't a nice fella" and caused her own demise and the complete crushing of her American dream.
