Today we highlighted on the board how the major characters are all outcasts from society due to physical or mental infirmity, poverty, and/or race.. We further noted how each character is pathologically lonely and carries a broken dream in his/her psyche. Joshua located textual passages from the novel that supported these characterizations, and we then tied the characters' personal broken dreams to the novel's theme of the broken promise of the American Dream at least for society's outcasts. We began a character analysis of Curley's wife and will study how this broken character becomes somewhat sympathetic to the reader. We further noted the role of race as an external force that predestines Crooks to a life of isolation and societal disdain.