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    letter .John Steinbeck Wrote of Curleyâs wife: âSheâs a nice girl and not a floozy.â Discuss and explain your own impression of Curleyâs wife. In âOf Mice and Menâ John Steinbeck describes Curleyâs wife as a character of many contradictions she is shown as both a nice girl and a floozy; lonely yet vindictive; Motherly but also seductive. In this essay I will try to discuss both of her sides. Throughout the novel Curleyâs wife acts and dresses as a floozy; in the very beginning when we first see

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    Curly’s Wife Curlys Wife is a very powerful and yet powerless character within the novel Of Mice and Men as Steinbeck uses her to reflect the prejudice against women in the 1930s since they had very little rights. Just from her title “Curlys Wife” she has no actual name‚ this shows that she is just Curlys property and powerless in the sense that she hasn’t got her own individual identity‚ only an identity through her husband‚ also she doesn’t have enough power to be called a ‘woman’ instead she

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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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    the character of Curley’s wife. Refer closely to the text in your answers to support your views. Of Men and Mice is not kind in its portrayal of women. In fact‚ women are treated with contempt throughout the course of the book. Steinbeck generally depicts women as troublemakers who bring ruin to men and drive them mad. Curley’s wife‚ who walks the ranch as a temptress seems to be a prime example of the destructive tendency. Despite the author’s rendering‚ Curley’s wife emerges as a relatively complex

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    nfl 1. First appearance When Curleyswife first appears in the book Lennie was fascinated by her looks and thinks that she is very pretty. You know this because he looks at her from top to bottom. These facts are true because in the book it says “Lennie’s eyes moved down her body.” To show that Lennie was fascinated by her looks it says “Lennie watched her‚ fascinated”. Another way that we know that Lennie thought that she was pretty is that after she leaves the bunk house Lennie then says “she

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    Curley’s Wife: Floozy or Innocent Girl? Curley’s wife is a young‚ pretty woman‚ who is mistrusted by her husband‚ Curley. The other characters refer to her only as ‘Curley’s wife‚’ which is significant as she is the only character in the novel without a name. She is a simple object or possession belonging to her husband and this shows the severity of the sexual discrimination in America in 1930s. I believe Steinbeck would have thought of her not as a person but a symbol. Almost everyone on the ranch

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    Of mice and men Notes curley’s wife  She is never given a name.  She is given no real identity.  She has only been married to Curley for a few weeks.  She is lonely. There are no other women to talk to on the ranch.  The men on the ranch like to think that she is after them.  She is married to the sons of the owner of the ranch so why would she be after the workers who have nothing.  When whit is playing cards he comments to George about Curley’s wife .”ain’t she a loo loo?” he also

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    characters is Curley’s wife. By becoming familiar with her‚ we come to an understanding of the tragedy of life. We see many perspectives of her‚ some negative and some positive. We feel ourselves orbiting this character. But we see ourselves evolving as the character also does. She could be interpreted as a ‘miss-fitting’ character in the novel‚ as no one relaters to her. So how does Steinbeck present and develop Curley’s wife in Of Mice and Men? Throughout the book‚ Curley’s Wife is often portrayed

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    John Steinbeck portrays Curleys wife as being a floozy but also a nice girl. She is a natural flirt as throughout the novel she continues to talk to all the other men‚ but when she dies‚ we see her as an innocent young girl. I am writing this essay to discuss my views and whether I agree with John Steinbeck when he says she is a nice girl. Curleys wife gives off the impression she is a floozy throughout the novel. When we first see her‚ her body language is deliberately provocative when

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    negative response‚ "She’s perty‚" for which George hastily reprimands her. George fears that she will get them into trouble and calls her "jailbait": he has seen too many women like her‚ 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

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