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An Analysis Of Curley's Wife In Of Mice And Men By John Steinbeck
In the Book Of Mice And Men, “she's a jailbate set on a trigger”from George

(3.135). The Author John Steinbeck portrays Curley’s Wife as a mean seductive

temptress. Considered she is the center point of all the men on the ranch

especially Lennie, she has a negative impact on the on most of the man at the ranch.

Curley's Wife in the book would be compared to a whore and a mean cold

Woman in the real world.

Curley’s Wife power is very great at the ranch and the fact she's the only woman

On the ranch that is also married to Curly. Curly’s Wife really uses her power on

Crooks because one things is for sure he is black which in the book it's worse to

be a black man than a woman on the ranch. "Listen, Nigger,You know what I
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Why did Curley's wife have to that? Why couldn't she just let Lennie be? Well

think about the beauty and her soft hair that attracts Lennie which he knows he

Couldn't resist.

All of this negativity brought on by someone evil goes along with the high ego

She has on the ranch as if she so superior to all the other man. She says “You

bundle bums think you’re so damn good. Whatta

ya think i am, a kid? I tell ya i could of went with shows. Not jus’ one, neither. An’

a guy tol’ me

he could put me in pitchers ….” She was breathless with indignation. “ - Sat’iday

night.

everybody out doin’ som’pin’. Ever’body! An’ what am i doin”? Standin’ here talkin’ to a bunch

Of bindle stiffs--a nigger an’ a dum-dum and a lousy ol’ sheep--an’ likin’ it because

they ain’t nobody else .’ (4.102-103). Curley's Wife thinks she deserves a far

Better life than what she has now but she knows that these bum bums is all she

Can mess with to ruin their lives from her ways. The best way to see it, she is best

known as a jailbate set on a

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