These four characters are the misfits and weak characters of the play. They are all unwanted, isolated people, all with a dream unfulfilled. This is what categorises them. Curleys Wife calls them weak to insult them, because she is interfering, and she is insulted, because they feel she’s interfering on their dream. The three men had spent the last twenty minutes or so describing and discussing it, about it becoming a reality. The dream …showed first 75 words of 963 total…

…showed last 75 words of 963 total…the pictures. She is also a very powerful person on the ranch; Curleys wife. She uses her authority to put crooks “in his place”, to make herself feel better when they turn her away. Curleys wife is both correct and incorrect. By themselves, they are weak characters. However, as a group, united, they are not weak. They share one dream, to have security and a home, their own place. This unites them. It makes them