reams. In one of his dreams every where he turned he saw his wife. “He looked the other way, and saw another wife, and she had the face of a goose. He looked again and there was a third wife; he looked around - still another.”(187); we can see in the previous quote that he is trying to get away from his wife but she is always there; he can’t be seen alone. The reason his wife’s face looks like a goose is because a goose is one of the only birds that can’t fly away; which mans that he is stuck with her and she will always be around. In another dream he views himself as a bell, his Auntie as a belfry and his wife pulling the rope. The image portrayed here is matrimony; The auntie represents the bell tower or the church, he is the bell that sounds the beginning of his marriage and the person pulling the rope to ring this bell is his own wife. The element that stretches this dream to a nightmare is the fact that someone from his independent and masculine past passes through: “No you’re a bell, said P-infantry regiment who happened to be passing at the time”(187).His next dream is significant because its expresses his worst fear. In the dream his wife is no longer a person but a woolen material you wear; the Shopkeeper recommends this to him: “Have some wife, it’s the latest thing now! Lovely quality as well.”(187); the shopkeeper represents his Auntie telling him to marry because it is time and telling him that the person chosen to be his wife is lovely as well. In the dream, he then brings the woolen material to a Jewish tailor who says: “No that’s very poor material. No one uses that kind of stuff for coats now…“(187); the tailor is referring to Grigoryevich. The meaning of the woolen material is that he plans on wearing it and since the woolen material is his wife he will then wear a new status including his wife. The idea of wearing his wife and...
