"I Dreamed A Dream" -Les Miserables
Along with "The Sound of Truth" representing Dewey Dell's anger about the rape scene the song "I Dreamed a Dream" from Les Miserables also can represent this scene in the book. In the musical this song is the dramatic moment where the character Fantine has suffered the most insulting degradation imaginable. She is a single mother who was abandoned by the father before the child's birth and so has to find work wherever she can. She starts out in a nice factory, but ends up prostituting for money. "I Dreamed a Dream" conveys all of the hardships that she has lived through in silence and with no one there to help her. Similarly, Dewey Dell trudges through life with only herself and a cow for support through her secret pain. If Dewey Dell were to have a break down scene in the book it would sound something like this song. It would be full of all of the pent up emotion that she has not ever reveled to anyone and it would be full of pain and sorrow.
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