Curley's Wife- Of Mice and Men part of essay

Irrefutably, dreams are a key theme in the novel, and Curley’s wife’s broken dream had been more deliberated than most. She thinks that she “coulda been in the movies, an’ had nice clothes”, but her hopes were entirely unrealistic, she was waiting for a letter that would never arrive, men were only interested in her because she was pretty. Curley’s wife thinks that she had ‘talent’ but in reality the men that spoke to her were only after one thing- and it wasn’t a Hollywood career for her. Pinning her hopes on one dream is very childlike which is precisely what her character is- a young, naive girl who is far too immature to already be married. She left her mum to spite her because she was too naïve to see that her mother was right for not letting her go and now she has no relationship or love with anybody; she is completely segregated in the world. The fact she has no name, and referred to as Curley's property, shows she has no importance amongst the ranch workers but she is actually a complex character who has her own dreams and her poor life quality further provides a hint to the reader that dreams rarely come true and George and Lennie's American Dream will fail as a result of her dream being a failure. Thinking she would be in a better situation if she married the first person she saw turned out to be the biggest mistake of her life and now she is completely trapped even though her life had not even started, she has no friends and no sympathetic ear to listen to her problems and now her dreams can never come true.
Fundamentally, the theme of danger and violence runs throughout the novella, we as readers first getting a glimpse of it when we hear about the woman in Weed wearing red, then again with the dead mouse and again when Lennie crushes Curley’s hand, also crushing his boxing dreams. But the real downfall came when Lennie mistakenly kills Curley’s wife, after being the only person to give her the time of day. She flirts with him because Lennie stays to