Dreams Flashcards
George and Lennie’s shared dream
“An’ live off the fatta the lan’.”
Curley’s wife’s lost dream of Hollywood.
“I coulda made somethin’ of myself.”
Crooks’ realism crushes the dream.
“Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land.”
Lennie seeks comfort in the dream.
“Tell me—like you done before.”
George’s dream life contrasts reality.
“S’pose they was a carnival or a circus come to town.”
Crooks, cynical about dreams.
“I seen hundreds of men come by… an’ every damn one of ‘em’s got a little piece of land in his head.”
Curley’s wife recalling false promises.
“He says he was gonna put me in the movies.”
George says this about the dream as the fantasy grows bigger
“We’ll have a big vegetable patch and a rabbit hutch and chickens.”
George, disillusioned.
“I think I knowed from the very first. I think I knowed we’d never do her.”
