In this story the main characters have dreams to flee from their own wretched lives.
Crooks for example dreams of being accepted by the other farm hands because of his black skin; Curley`s wife dreams of being a film star at the movies to be away from Curley, who doesn't like to see her flirting with other men because of his jealousy.
Dreams in general are in certain phases of sleep, more or less clear or predominated pictorial mental experiences with irregular situation-, time- and personality consciousness.
Maybe dreams are important for humans, to make up some worlds of their own, where they can get or reach everything they want to. Perhaps they might be good if you're sad (or something like that), to make you become happy again. But as dreams are just some kinds of illusions, it may be dangerous to live always in a dream world.
 
 
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