einbeck's use of language presents Curley's wife in a certain way. In this essay I will be analysing a number of quotes in order to find the deeper meaning of them all. Firstly from this extract we get the feel that Curley's wife, is actually scared of Curley. "She was suddenly apprehensive.", "....she hurried away.". The fact that the word "apprehensive has been used suggest that Curley makes her fearful of what might happen if she were to be with another man. However we could infer that this was the result of being in an abusive relationship with Curley, and that she is afraid Curley will find her out of the house flirting with another man.. Also the time phrase "suddenly" suggest that she was fine flirting before she knew that Curley's whereabouts was in the house looking for her. As the reader we may feel great sympathy toward her for perhaps the fact that she has to go home to an abusive relationship. …show more content…
"Nobody can blame a person for looking.". The way in which the word "blame" had been used could suggest that she wasn't going to tell Curley anything that anyone does. This is also implying to an extremely mentally immature man like Lennie that it is perfectly expectable thing to do is to try and win over a woman who is married. From this we could infer that Curley's wife is very secretive and she wouldn't let him now if she a fling with another man and she was in an abusive relationship.. The reader must feel although she is being provocative and a tiny bit of a
In this essay I am going to be assessing the character Curleys Wife from Steinbeck’s book Of Mice And Men. The book is set in the 1930s during the Great Depression it features two farm workers called George and Lennie. The travel around together in search of work sharing a dream of a place of their own, a small ranch where they can live and work for themselves. It tells the story of how violence may erupt to destroy those dreams. Curleys wife is a character in the book who from the brief encounters with her is presented in two ways. Firstly the dangerous, flirtatious character who isn’t trusted by the rest of the ranch workers but then later one we realize how she is just a victim
Sympathy. Feelings of pity and sorrow for someone else's misfortune. In the novel 'Of Mice and Men', there a numerous characters you may feel sympathetic toward. Most especially Curley's wife. I hold the most compassion for Curley's wife because she was misunderstood and innocently killed.
Curley's wife tells Lennie about how she hates Curly and she had opportunities to be in a picture/movie and make something out of herself. Curley's wife even meet a guy that was going to help her make it big, but he never responded back, at this point she knew her dreams weren't going flourish so she settled for Curley to get out of her hometown. Curley's wife used Curley as an option b in a sense because she never wanted a husband as controlling and cruel as Curley, but he was the only way to somewhat of a bright future for her. Curley wife tells Lennie about herself because she looks at Lennie as a child-like gentleman and the irony is, of course, Lennie murdering her in the end, but she just was tired of not being able to have contact everyone
In the novel, the character Curley’s wife is the wife of the Boss’ son and does not have a name that everyone can call her besides Curley’s wife. She is shown to be the only women in the ranch. She presents herself, as a dolled up woman who seeks men’s attention and a flirtatious character. Firstly, when Curley’s wife is introduced, she was seen attractive.
Despite being the only female on a ranch full of foul-mouthed men, Curley's wife exploits both her sexuality and her status to demonstrate power throughout the novel. Though the men often thought that she was ineffectual, she made certain to quickly prove them wrong. For example, when talking to Crooks she was exceedingly straightforward with her authority: “Well you keep your place then, ni**er. I could get you strung up on a tree so fast it ain’t even funny”(81). Even though she was a woman, Curley’s wife had an authority over others on the ranch because she was married to the boss’s son.
She is a lonely woman. The reason Curley’s wife wants attention from everybody is become of the lack of love she feels. When she tries to talk to Lennie he denies her. She asks “Why can’t I talk to you? I never get to talk to nobody, I get awful lonely.”
He has used this by using the quote '' The ache for attention were all gone from her face. She was very pretty and simple, and her face was sweet and young.'' Steinbeck has described her as an angel who washed out her sins and went pure. In contrast to this Curley only cares about his social status. You can see this when ''Curley...ain't you better stay here with your wife''. Normally when your wife dies you would want to share your last moments together but the fact that Curley has to be reminded about his wife's death is upsetting since his main focus is killing Lennie. And it emphasises that he just used her as a possession due to the fact that it was a loveless marriage therefore he didn't really care much about her. In this quote you can also tell that all the bunkmates felt sorry for her even thought she acted with suspense because she didn't deserve more misery in her
Steinbeck portrayed that cynicism of society is harmful because an innocent action can be misunderstood and cause grave errors. Curley’s wife was flirtatious by nature and George knew that Curley's wife was trouble and he warned Lennie, “Don’t you even take a look… I don’t care what she says and what she does… I never have seen no piece of jailbait worse than her” (Steinbeck 32). Curley’s wife was flirtatious and she would throw herself at men out of boredom. But, if Curley ever found out that a man had even glanced at her he would throw the man in jail. Which was exactly what Curley was ready to do when Lennie accidentally killed his wife. Everyone thought it was on purpose, even if they knew it was an accident they would treat the situation
Will Smith once said, “The women who don’t seek attention are usually the women you need to be giving your attention to”. This quote relates to Mice and Men because Curley’s wife is in the observe situation, where with her actions, she is pleading for attention but gets none in return. In the novel, Mice and Men, written by John Steinbeck, the only female in the book is killed because the men think she is troublesome and bait for problems. Through the use of the men’s and the narrator’s diction, characterization, and the men’s assumptions, Steinbeck portrays how desperate Curley’s wife is for attention, later resulting in her death, which inturn causes the death of someone else.
During 1937 when Steinbeck wrote the book "Of Mice and Men", women were treated as second-class citizens. This was also the time when the great depression occurred in America. In the novel, Curley's wife is the key women, and she is not named at all, the lack of name denotes Curley's wife to insignificant status. Steinbeck wants the reader to recognise the inferior role of women in the world. In contrast, to this Shakespeare, an English poet and play writer as he is regarded to the utmost writer in English language, has written a tragedy play which is titled "Macbeth" in the early 1600s as it is based on a true story located in Scotland about the 11th-century Scottish king.
Most of the men wouldn’t give an answer, and some would. Either way, they were most irritated to talk to her. They discriminated against her and didn’t like the fact that she snooped around the men. Because she was a woman. The men thought Curley’s wife was very manipulative.
- Lord Chesterfield once said, "You must look into people, as well as at them." If you apply this logic to Curley's wife and Crooks in the book, Of Mice and Men, you will find that they are the same in many ways despite their differences in race and sex. These two unfortunate souls live in a world full of shattered dreams, discrimination, and loneliness.
Curley is one of ‘Of Mice and Men’s’ major characters. Although he does not appear to hold a central role, he is very important in other respects. The first of these is the way in which he treats George and Lennie, and the ranch workers in general on the ranch. Curley is the boss’ son. Therefore he acts like he is the boss himself. He orders the others around, and, although it is true that he does hold some power on the ranch, he does not hold any respect from the workers. He is nasty towards them, treating as though they are them below him, and often trying to pick fights.
Steinbeck creates contrasting representations of Curley’s wife using the phrase “and the meanness and planning and discontent and the ache for attention” with “were all gone.” The juxtaposition of the two phrases is used to show the reader that all her bad qualities and all her obnoxiousness has all been washed away and it has disappeared into thin air and we actually start to somewhat feel pity for this character that we had thought to be a “b***h” and a “tart.” The long sentence and syndetic listing actually emphasises
A moral lesson would be to not judge someone before you get to really know them. There might be more to them than you think. In the novel Of Mice and Men, written by John Steinbeck, the two main characters George and Lennie look for work on a ranch. There’s only one woman on the ranch and that is Curley’s wife. Throughout the novel Steinbeck shows how Curley’s wife is viewed by the men. They think poorly of her and believe her to be nothing but an unfaithful floozy. She only strays from Curley because she feels lonely and neglected. She’s bitter that she missed an opportunity to make it big in the movies. She is now stuck on a ranch with a husband she doesn’t love. She takes all this bottled emotion and projects it at the workers in forms of