Dream’. Central to Steinbeck’s novel is Curley’s Wife and her importance in the novel is of how she revolves around the novels main themes and events. Curley’s Wife is excluded for being female‚ she is often found in search for companionship on the ranch as her newly found marriage does not give her the affection she desires‚ as she states to Lennie “I don’t like Curley he aint a nice fella.” Because of this she often tries to interact with the other men although she is never allowed as they think
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In ’Of Mice and Men’ Steinbeck uses dialogue‚ action and description to introduce and describe the characters. Curley’s wife is first introduced‚ through description‚ as a girl not a woman: "A girl was standing there looking in." (page 53). This implys that Curley’s wife is looked down upon because she is female and young. Also‚ this shows the age difference between her and the men who work on the ranch because they are described as guys or men while Curley’s wife is described as a girl or young
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+ The story Of Mice and Men is set in Salinas by the Salinas River - where George and Lennie spend the night after escaping from their previous ranch in weed – just south of Soledad. The theme of loneliness runs throughout the book and I will be exploring how Steinbeck presents this theme through the character of Curley’s wife. Many of the characters are lonely‚ and seek different ways to find comfort‚ for Candy it is his dog‚ this is why he finds it so hard to let him go during chapter 3 “The old
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How does Steinbeck present the character of Curley in Of Mice and Men? In Of Mice and Men Steinbeck mainly presents Curley as a mean person who wants authority on the ranch. Although this makes Curley a more hated character‚ Steinbeck makes it clear to the reader that Curley is only mean as a result of being lonely. This loneliness of Curley was typical of men on ranches in 1930s America. Curley wants to get more authority on the ranch. When we first see Curley‚ he is described as closing his
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merely referred to as ‘Curley’s Wife’. Her lack of identity could imply she is not woman but rather a possession of her husband. She is shown to represent the lost of identity after being associated with something or someone. That is why she has no name; her identity is being someone’s wife. As this character develops we find that she is not in fact the unimportant‚ nameless character we first perceive her as‚ but rather she is a relatively complex and interesting character‚ with much more to her
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novella Of Mice and Men‚ John Steinbeck presents a female character who is isolated by her husband’s will. This results in her living a sad and lonely life. Curley’s wife is the only woman living on the farm where the story takes place. Her husband of only two weeks‚ who she later admits to not loving‚ is over – protective and does not allow her to talk to anyone or have any friends. Steinbeck shows the theme of isolation through the depressed and regretful character of Curley’s wife who dies at
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Our first impression of Curley’s wife is that she is a very sexual character. This is suggested through Steinbeck’s description “her fingernails were red”. Red is associated with danger but also with love and passion. Red lipstick was used by prostitutes at the time to represent sexual arousal. Steinbeck also uses similes to give an image of Curley’s wife. For example “her hair hung in little rolled clusters‚ like sausages”. However‚ the primary message is that she is dangerous and not to be trusted
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How does Steinbeck present Curly’s wife as an outsider? During the 1930’s life in America for women was difficult due to work places for women being scarcer resulting in unemployment and leading to women being marginalised. In ‘Of Mice and Men’ by John Steinbeck the role of Curly’s wife is one of great importance and leads to the misunderstanding of the two disenfranchised characters; Lennie and Curly’s wife. Similarly to the other characters‚ Curly’s wife is correspondingly presented as an outsider
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mice When John Steinbeck wrote of mice and men‚ he showed there was a lot of inequality during the 1930’s. This essay shall attempt to portray the inequality of women in Steinbeck’s novel. George the main character of the story‚ first sets his eyes on Curley’s wife‚ his initial impression of her is that he has “never seen no piece of jail bait worse than her” (Steinbeck 2006 p36). In the novel Curley’s wife is a beautiful woman who constantly shows her beauty to the men on the ranch. She dresses
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1937 novel Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck there is a very powerful aspect of male dominance in the text. From a feminist’s point of view this story degrades women‚ and categorizes them as sexual objects. One example of this was the representation of Curley’s wife as a character. She was not a main character but she was visually described extensively. She is portrayed as a tramp‚ and it seems as though this was a deliberate point made by Steinbeck. The first time Curley’s wife is seen she is
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