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However she was a fighter as she didn't give up straight away after all the bad things that had happened to her. The way people around her treated her was the reason that she committed suicide as they used and abused her and didn't help her in times of need. Gerald had known Daisy Renton and had used her for his own gain. "I became at once the most important person in her life” Gerald had used the power he had to exploit her sexually for his own pleasure and she had become his mistress. Gerald knew that she depended on him and still he had used her. Despite that Gerald had also taken care of her by giving her a place to stay and some money. She ended up caring for him more than he ever cared for her and at the end he had to break it of which he then …show more content…
"she didn't want me to go in” Eric didn't care about what Eva wanted, but just his selfish needs , this shows that their relationship was one-sided. They had slept with each other which lead to Eva becoming pregnant with his child. She didn't want to marry Eric because she knew that he didn't love her and was using her, she still kept on accepting his money until she found out it was stolen and then broke off the relationship. In the same way Curley couldn't protect his wife as he was to busy trying to show of his masculine side just to prove himself stronger than the men in the ranch. This means that Curley was more feminine than masculine which is the reason why he always wanted to fight just to prove that he was bigger than them and the reason he couldn’t control his wife. Also he was not physical and emotionally capable of taking care of his wife as he never gave her the attention she wanted which lead to her trying to get the attention for the ranch men. The way the men treated the two women lead to them failing them as they were both dependent on men which then affected them later on which played a part in their

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