Curley's Wife Ambiguous Character

In the novel of “Of Mice and Men” Steinbeck invented an extremely ambiguous character known as Curely’s Wife. Readers would ether like or dislike the personality of Curley’s Wife. Her dream was to be in the movies as she quotes “Nother time I met a guy an’ he was in pitchers. Went out to the Riverside Dance Palace with him. He says he was gonna put me in the movies. Says I was a natural” In the novel she was massively disliked by the other characters for her attracting the attention of other men when she was married. She does this by the way she dresses. This makes her sexually provocative and attractive to men.

Firstly in the novel of “Of Mice and Men” Curley’s wife was described in details. For instance “her hair hung in little rolled clusters like sausages” “fully rouged lips” “heavily made up”. This makes us think that Curley’s
For example “Well I think Curley’s married a…..tart”. This is said by Candy who is labelling her to George and Lennie before they had even met her. George also shows that he doesn’t like her and that Lennie shouldn’t as well by saying “Well, you keep away from her, ‘cause she’s a rattrap if I ever seen one. You let Curley take the rap. He let himself in for it. Glove fulla Vaseline,” This demonstrates that just because Curley’s married her makes the lads have to dislike him as well.

When Claire Luce was playing Curley’s Wife Steinbeck sent her a letter about Curley’s Wife, explaining what she is like. He said “she’s is a nice, kind girl, not a floozy.” He is saying that he didn’t mean to make her a floozy and that she was misunderstood by the other characters. He also says “With all this -if you knew her, if you could break down a thousand little defences she had built up, you would find a nice person, a honest person and you would end up loving he.” This shows that she was misunderstood, scared and even frightened at what the world was