John introduced us to a character called Curley’s wife‚ she plays a complex and misfit character as she got so many different sides to her‚ as sometimes the reader feels sympathetic and unsympathetic about her. John Steinbeck’s novel of Mice and Men is an example of how the reader’s perception of a character can change without the character actually changing. Steinbeck uses many different techniques to present Curley’s wife such as colour imagery‚ appearance‚ metaphors and similes in the early
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Of Mice And Men In Of Mice And Men George and Lennie search for work in order to one day afford their own home. In many instances throughout the book Lennie often wants to live on farm and raise rabbits. George is willing to do anything for Lennie to make him happy and keep him calm. Quite often‚ George is the one who has a life after working on the ranch already planned out. One quote‚ which is said early in the book‚ in a vulgar language‚ is said by George and is abruptly interrupted by
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Throughout the reading of “Of Mice and Men”‚ written by John Steinbeck‚ I feel that the one quote that embodies the author’s message of the entire work is located towards the end of the novel. I find that the quote that embodies the message is‚ “He pulled the trigger.” (106). To me‚ this quote shows the loyalty of George to Lennie. In the beginning of the novel‚ we see that George has somewhat rescued Lennie‚ and taken him away from the danger that he was facing back in Weed. At any point of time
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How does Steinbeck use language and structure to portray curleys wife? Firstly‚ her first description is in chapter two just after George and lennie have arrived on the ranch. When we first read her description we realise she is all dressed in red‚ she wore “red mules”‚ “red ostrich feathers” and her “finger nails were red”. The author uses this symbolic language technique to help us understand that red is associated with danger in the book. This suggests that she is someone to be avoided. The
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how Curley’s wife is affected by Prejudice The other men call her and treat her like a tart. She is often demeaned and made to feel oppressed. One way in which I believe she is oppressed is by the way she’s not given a name‚ just referred to as Curley’s Wife‚ Curley’s property. “I ain’t used to living like this”‚ this quotation suggests that she is sick of being made to stay at home all day and just clean‚ cook and do all the chores around the house. I believe that Curley’s wife also feels demeaned
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When Curley’s wife is first introduced in the novella‚ the audience is presented with her rigid personality. Very soon the reader learns how Curley’s wife is not the least bit respected by anyone on the ranch including her own husband‚ Curley. Candy mentions‚ “‘Curley says he’s keepin’ that hand soft for his wife’ ” (Steinbeck 27). Evidently‚ Curley does not love his wife nor does he respect her because if he did‚ he would not be advertising their personal lives in this manner. As a result‚ Curley’s
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married women who seduce men and get them into trouble. Curley’s wife is aware of the power of her attractiveness and aims to use it to her advantage: she always dresses in "red" and is "heavily made out". We might interpret this unflatteringly and as evidence of her promiscuous status‚ as she has no reason to be so dressed up on a ranch; equally‚ as the colour red represents both lust and danger‚ the latter being apt foreshadowing for later events in the story. But right from our first meeting with
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Facts about Curley’s wife She is never given a name She is Curley’s wife She is pretty She likes soft things like Lennie Felt rejected from Curley She died She hasn’t got many friends She is manipulative She had her neck broken She is flirtatious Curly hair Men think she is permiscuous She’s lonely She wanted to be an actress She was trying to punish her mum as she thought her mum had hidden the letter saying she could be an actress Marries Curley out of spite Regrets marrying
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Quote• Candy Quote 1 The old man [Candy] squirmed uncomfortably. "Well-hell! I had him so long. Had him since he was a pup. I herded sheep with him." He said proudly‚ "You wouldn’t think it to look at him now‚ but he was the best damn sheep dog I ever seen." (3.56) This is almost the exact same thing that George says about Lennie: he’s "had him so long." But can you really be friends with a dog? Or someone who’s way mentally inferior to you? Chapter 3 Friendship Quote 2 "A guy on a ranch
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Of Mice and Men is a novel set on a ranch in the Salinas Valley in California‚ during the Great Depression of the 1930s by John Steinbeck. It was the first work to bring Steinbeck’s national recognition as a writer. The book addresses the real hopes and dreams of working-class America. Steinbeck’s short novel raises the lives of the poor and dispossessed to a higher‚ symbolic level. The title suggests that plans of Mice and Men often go awry‚ a reference to Robert Burn’s poem "To a Mouse." Since
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