Curley's Wife Monologue

When Curley’s wife dies, Curley, rather than showing the reaction that would be expected of a man whose wife has just been killed. He does not appear to grieve at all in any way, barely looking at the body, or regarding the her death into his immediate future plans. Instead, his first thought is towards seeking revenge and hunting down Lennie. It is perhaps this moment in the novel which epitomises the way in which Curley is aggressive, nasty, and shows no concern

Essay about Curley’s wife Curley’s wife is the only female character in the novel Of Mice of Men; Curley’s wife is never given a name and is only referred to in reference to her husband. Like the other people on the ranch, she is very lonely and has dreams of a better life which never come true. The author John Steinbeck introduces Curley’s wife in a symbolic ness way, this is shown when George is talking to Lennie about the dream and when Curley’s wife first meets both the men. “Both men glanced up, for the rectangle of sunshine in the doorway was cut off.

    Curley’s wife was known as a tart and was avoided by the men on the ranch. At first the reader could assume her dream was to be noticed and talked to but her dream was to ‘be in the pictures’. A professional man had promised to make her famous and she waited for a letter that ensured this. She never received the letter and that’s where the decline of her dreams happened. Shortly after, her dreams started failing she married Curley who controlled her.

to Crooks' door when all the men are in town on Saturday night we realize that she is

Curley’s wife shows her use of attraction as manipulation to gain control over men. It is due to her lack of dominance over her own life that this desire

"You got no right to come in my room. This here's my room. Nobody got any right in here but me," Crooks said sharply (68). In the book Of Mice and Men, two men travel together to find work to raise enough money to live the American dream. Lennie Small and George Milton, two hard working men, believe they can accomplish the ultimate dream. Lennie and George work together to go through each hardship and challenge they encounter on the ranch. Through the characters Carlson, Crooks, and Curley's wife, John Steinbeck says the “virus” cruelty, can change a person into having a bitter and negative attitude.

“O.K. Someday-we’re gonna get the jack together and we’re gonna have a little house and a couple of acres an’ a cow and some pigs and-‘’(pg.14) Lennie and George’s dream was in Lennie’s words to “Live off the fatta the lan’.” Everyone in life has a different dream that they want, but sometimes the road to that dream has a couple detours. When people get off of the road they try as hard as they can to get back on it, but sometimes you just can’t. A dream has a very personalized route to get to it but with courage, strength, and persistence a dream will come true.

In the book of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck employs foreshadowing throughout the book to lead up to the event that happens at the end of the book. Lennie’s childlike mentality has him do things that he likes that will get him in trouble by the end of the book.Curley's wife’s behavior also contributes to the foreshadowing of her death.

George Milton and Lennie Small are drifters, struggling to hold a job to achieve their American dream; owning their own ranch. The author, John Steinbeck uses examples that reinforce gender stereotypes throughout the short story Of Mice and Men. Curley’s wife is considered poor and is married to the ranch owner’s son. This can be found as the disrespect of Curley’s wife by all of the men on the ranch. This links to the gender stereotype that women are only an object or possession to men. The gender stereotype is that all of the men are all hard working every day with labour intensive jobs on the ranch, however Curley’s wife just flirts with all the men. The last stereotype is that all women are manipulative and lie. Steinbeck plays on these

It was a Sunday afternoon, and Curley was playing horseshoes out with them other farm workers. I wanted to get away from that blasted Curley. He never let me talk to anyone, not anyone on the farm. Not only that, he won’t even treat me like I’m his wife, barely even talkin’ to me unless he had a hateful thing to say. I’m tired of life on this farm.

I Believe Curley's Wife Is A Mix Of A Victim And A Villain Because of her Reputation, her attitude, and her Marriage. How are gender roles treated in society? Has anything changed and society still reject women as having permanent and important roles or has there been no change at all. In The book the only female figure is addressed without a name and is also shown and referred to as someone's possession. Steinbeck diverts the attention from females and does not fully acknowledge them as important or as a person in general, “ Don't even look at that B****.

Curley’s wife is what we in modern day might call a “tease”, but there is more to her than

Unfortunately, Curley’s wife’s dream gets crushed. Curley’s wife’s dream gets crushed when Lennie kills her. When Lennie was alone in the barn with his dead puppy, she walked in. She then starts to talk to Lennie and starts to tell her her dream. She then finds out that Lennie likes to pet soft things for she lets him pet her hair. When he starts to pet her hair she tells him to not mess it up. Then she tries to pull away, but Lennie started to panick and holds on to her hair. Lennie then covers her mouth and tells her to be quiet and starts to shake her, but he accidently shakes her to hard and breaks her neck. When Curley’s wife tries to pull away from Lennie he starts to shake her, “he shook her; and her body flopped like a fish and then

Finally, the reader is introduced to the character around whom the story is centered, the accursed murderess, Mrs. Wright. She is depicted to be a person of great life and vitality in her younger years, yet her life as Mrs. Wright is portrayed as one of grim sameness, maintaining a humorless daily grind, devoid of life as one regards it in a normal social sense. Although it is clear to the reader that Mrs. Wright is indeed the culprit, she is portrayed sympathetically because of that very lack of normalcy in her daily routine. Where she was once a girl of fun and laughter, it is clear that over the years she has been forced into a reclusive shell by a marriage to a man who has been singularly oppressive. It is equally clear that she finally was brought to her personal breaking point, dealing with her situation in a manner that was at once final and yet inconclusive, depending on the outcome of the legal investigation. It is notable that regardless of the outcome, Mrs. Wright had finally realized a state of peace within herself, a state which had been denied her for the duration of her relationship with the deceased.

The narrator’s feelings of inferiority and powerlessness parallels the female figure she sees trapped behind the pattern in the wall-paper adorning her room. She gradually withdraws from both John and reality by locking herself in the room and ultimately merging with the figure. Through the changing image of the pattern from a “fait figure” (Gilman 46) to a “woman stooping” (Gilman 46) behind the paper and “shaking the bars” (Gilman 46) as if she wanted “to get out” (Gilman 46), we can see her becoming one with the figure: “I pulled and she shook, I shook and she pulled, and before morning we had peeled off yards of that paper.”(51) Her collapse into madness as reflected in her behavior with the “bedstead [that] is fairly gnawed” (Gilman 51) and her “creeping all around” (Gilman 50) is a direct result of her passive submissiveness to John’s control of her life.