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A Hidden Voice In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

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A hidden voice wasn’t a woman's only problem in the 1930s, but dressing and manners were also of utmost importance. John Steinbeck describes Curley’s wife by saying, “‘Her face was heavily made up”(77). In the 1930s women were expected to always have their face made up before their husband got up and they could also not have a single flaw in it throughout the whole day. The same was not expected of men. Not only could men talk the way they wanted to and to whomever they wanted to but they also did not have to put any effort into looking proper and no one would say anything. “‘She wore her bright cotton dress and the mules with the red ostrich feathers”’(Steinbeck 86). Many women were still expected to wear dresses or skirts in the 1930s, pants

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