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Of Mice and Men. Monologue. Curley’s wife.
Who do they think they are? Pack of bindle bums! Think they are all so damn good. They don’t know me. They don’t know who i am, what i’m about. Who do they think they are treatin me like a kid? Bunch of bindle stiffs! They ain’t no better, they ain’t gonna amount to nothin’. Yeah, they gotta stupid plan, but they ain’t gonna make it. Ha! A stupid dum dum, can’t string two words together and make it make sense, he’s so stupid! Lousy ol’ sheep. Why, he couldn’t put in a decent day’s work if he tried too. He too ol’, he ought to be happy that he has a place to stay. He should be worshipping the ground i walk on for that, but he ain’t. And that do-gooder nigger. Why, he betta know that he’ll be here until the day he die. He ain’t goin’ nowhere, and if i had my way he’d be strung up like the dog he is. Treatin’ me like that! Who does he think he is? Who do they think they are? They all better watch their mouths or i’ll have them all strung up. Stupid pack of bindle bums. They don’t know me. They don’t know nothin’!
They ain’t got a clue what it’s like for me here. Day in day out, jus’ me to talk to. A girl needs to talk to someone. A girl could go nuts couped up in that two-by-four house all day with nothin’ to do. They always be tellin’ me to get back to my husban’ but i listen to my lousy husban’ talkin’ about using the ol’ one and two all the time and it’s cracking me up. I have feelings too, i need to be loved jus’ as much as the next girl. I ain’t hurting no-nbody by wanting to talk to those men. I ain’t doin’ nothing wrong and all they can do is be mean to me and call me awful names behing my back. I know they do that.I ain’t stupid, i hear how they all talk for curleys benefit. I ain’ sure how long i can take it all for. A girl needs a life and i ain’t got that. I need someone, something....
I use to be som’body. I coulda been somebody. I coulda had them nice clothes and stayed in them big fancy hotels. I

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