In chapter 1, Steinbeck introduces us to George and Lennie, two migrant workers who are traveling to work on a ranch in Soledad, California. The odd duo is trying to survive and save up money in the 1930s: Great Depression.…
Steinbeck indicates through Curley’s wife’s attention seeking personality throughout the book that women in general are disrespected on their gender rather than their capabilities or personality resulting in a loss of identity and putting up a façade. Curley’s wife represents not all, but most women in the early 1900s, she is overlooked upon by the men on the ranch so she uses her looks to get their attention. She simply does this because she is lonely and has nothing else to do.…
Curley’s Wife is portrayed as a “tart” and “tramp” according to the male characters in Of Mice and Men. She frequently flirts with the ranch hands on her father-in-laws’ farm. Even though she’s a trouble maker, Curley’s Wife experiences extreme loneliness and the hurt of her own broken dream. She explains on page 97 that she had a chance at an acting career but instead she was trapped into living an unhappy life with Curley. This proves that Curley’s wife is not a heartless “bitch” but actually a human being that has aspirations and…
what he thinks about her. When Curley’s wife is talking to the guys, she is always grabbing…
Steinbeck forces the reader to alter their perception on Curley’s wife throughout this chapter. She starts to act sincere and we begin to feel that we have finally met the real Curley’s wife. She is no longer represented as a sexual figure and starts to show her emotions. It makes us feel like she wants to love and to be loved.…
Steinbeck uses Curley’s wife to represent how many women in the 1930s were classed below men, and how this prejudice allowed their lives to be defined by the men around them. In this passage, Steinbeck has manipulated Curley’s wife’s appearance in order to reinforce our pre judged feelings towards her, based on gossip and rumours told by Candy.…
Curley's wife changed throughout the book as readers got to know her and also readers opinions. First, readers a get a very negative aspect of her from the males in the bunkhouse. Especially when George says, “I seen em’ poison before, but I never seen no piece of jail bait worse than her” (Steinbeck 32). Right away in the story you are told and have the feelings to hate her. Secondly, readers start to get a little more insight on how lonely she is by how much she is around, and what she says.…
She is married to the sons of the owner of the ranch so why would she be after the workers who have nothing.…
In the novel Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck creates characters that play important roles throughout the story that contribute to themes and connect readers to an overall focus. Curley’s wife, a minor, but significant character in the story, contributes to the theme and is partly responsible for Lennie’s death. Her sinful actions and petty personality make her a character that isn’t respected by others and is known for being trouble around the ranch. Disregarding her flirtations ways and overall self-absorbance, her dreams of a promising future are destroyed. Her gaudy appearance and constant search for Curley makes the men on the ranch view her as a cheater and inappropriate woman. However, after hearing her story, some of…
Throughout this novel Curley’s wife seems to always be looking for her husband, Curley. Having to always search for Curley is not a good relationship, as Curley’s wife steps into the doorway of the bunkhouse she says to George and Lennie, “I’m lookin’ for Curley Oh… Sometimes Curley’s in here” (Steinbeck 31). In this quote not only is Curley’s wife looking for Curley but she’s trying to carry on the conversation. All Curley’s wife wants to do most of the time is talk to people, but she’s not always allowed to. As a matter of fact Curley gets very upset when his wife talks to others, Curley's wife states to Crooks, Candy, and Lennie, “Think I don’t like to talk to somebody ever’ once in a while? Think I like to stick in that house alla time?... I’m glad you bust up Curley… I’d like to… myself” (Steinbeck 77, 81). This passage shows that Curley’s wife will talk to another person if she wants to and doesn’t care what her husband thinks. Finally, Curley’s wife enjoys a lot of attention in general. Therefore, Curley’s wife is kind of throwing herself at the men, dressing up and leaning on the door frame Steinbeck adds a very detailed description of her, “Full rouged lips…eyes, heavily made up…wore a cotton house dress and red mules” (Steinbeck 31). This information from the novel shows that Curley’s wife dresses to impress. Curley’s wife is essentially acting out in these situations…
Curley’s wife always hoped to be an actress and even after she was married and settled down on the ranch, she still had those hopes of being famous in the back of her head. For example, when she gets annoyed with Lennie and Crooks she begins bragging about almost being in shows when she was younger, “ ‘...Whatta I care? You bindle 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. Ever'body 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.’ " (Steinbeck 78). However, as seen above, that bragging soon turns into resentment toward her younger self for never following her dreams. Through this we can see that even though she is stuck in a lousy marriage on a random ranch and treated as less than everybody else simply because she is a woman, she still hopes to make it out and get to perform and be in…
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In of mice and men, Curleys Wife is presented in many various ways. At first impression, she comes across as the seductive, troublemaker the ranchers see her as. However, as the story progresses, we learn that this is only one of many sides to a very lonely woman. The readers sympathy for this character also changes throughout the novel, as her secrets are revealed and the real Curley's Wife is found.…
Granted that Curley’s Wife is mainly seen as a victim of multiple discriminations, one who was opposing the idea of the victimization of Curley's Wife could attach her to certain villainous characteristics. Curley’s Wife is given no name in this novel besides the ones that the men on the ranch call her. Names like “Tart”, “Rat Trap”, and “Tramp”, are the ones that the men define her as. We can see early on in the story that Curley’s Wife lives up to these nicknames when she enters the bunkhouse for the first time, “She had full, rouged lips and wide-spaced eyes, heavily made up” (Steinbeck 31). In this portion of the story, Curley’s Wife is given an image, and it is the image of a woman who is seeking attention. She uses the attention she receives to manipulate the men who work on the ranch. This is not the only villainous quality Curley’s Wife has; she is also very harsh towards some of the ranch workers, especially Crooks the black stable buck. We see the racist attitude that Curley’s Wife exerts upon Crooks when she claims, “’Well, you keep your place then, nigger. I could get you strung up on a tree so easy it ain’t even funny’” (Steinbeck 81). Curley’s Wife threatens to have Crooks lynched, all because he…
Names have been an important facet of society for as long as Homo sapiens have existed. A name is defined as “a word or symbol used in logic to designate an entity.” In Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck teaches a lesson about the nature of human existence and shows how grim and isolated people become without hope. Steinbeck neglects to address Curley’s wife’s character by name in order to emphasize her position as a literary element and provide commentary on society in the time period during which he lived.…