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How Does Steinbeck Present Curley's Wife

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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

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