The American Dream is a wish that someone really really wants that they truly believe can become possible but is currently unachieved. In the story Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, written about and during the Great Depression in 1937 California, he demonstrates how everyone in the book has their own version of the American Dream. The people that will be used are Curley’s Wife, Candy and Crooks and they are 3 totally different people who all have one thing in common: an American dream. One person who has her own version of an American dream is Curley’s Wife, which was to become a movie star. At the time of the quote, Lennie had just killed his puppy and Curley’s Wife enters the barn house. She spots Lennie holding his dead dog and she sits in the hay next to Lennie, trying to strike up a conversation. She says to him at one point, “ ‘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 …show more content…
In my passage, Crooks had just finished messing with Lennie about George not coming back for him. Basically Crooks wasn’t trying to be mean. He was just trying to explain in his version what it’s like to have nobody around you. He says, “ ‘A guy sets alone out here at night, maybe readin’ books or thinkin’ or stuff like that. Sometimes he gets thinkin’, an’ he got nothing to tell him what’s so an’ what ain’t so...He can’t turn to some other guy and ast him if he sees it too’...It was difficult for Crooks to conceal his pleasure with anger.”(pg73&75) This is significant to my thesis because this shows how at the time, people thought about land or being famous but Crooks’ version was companionship. Thus he was far different from the normal person’s