The Dream, 2_______________________________________

Now Laurey's girlfriends appear in her dream,
dancing and celebrating her love.

Although they seem harmless,
their movements are odd, artificial, and exaggerated.
And the color of the landscape and sky
has changed again.

They present Laurey's double
with a wedding gown,
which should be everything her heart desires.

A gaggle of male dancers now comes through
to the music that accompanied the song Curly sang earlier --
"The Surrey With the Fringe on Top".
Presumably they are miming the act
of taking Laurey for a ride in that promised surrey,
but their movements are odd and stiff
and they seem almost like geese or ducks,
enhancing the sense of absurdity and depersonalization. 

A wedding sequence is then acted out,
with a ghostlike church in the background,

The male dream-double
lifts the wedding veil

of the female double,
and she is shocked to discover
that her groom has been transformed

into Jud.