The feeling of a flowery breeze, yellow fields, and the creaky floorboard of the porch, yet someone stays inside watching the men work on the ranch. The ranch owner’s son is married to a young, pretty woman. Whenever she got bored of staying in the house, she would peek outside for a bit. She would walk into the bunkhouse of the men working in the field. Asking her husband Curley. 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. The text shows this “She’s a jail bait all set on the trigger”. Curley got his work cut out for …show more content…
The men think of her as manipulative, because she flirts with them. They don’t want to fall into her “trap”. “You can talk to people, but I can’t talk to nobody but Curley.” (Steinbeck 87) She is trying to get to know people other than Curley. She is lonely when Curley leaves. Moreover, she is misunderstood for her actions and therefore is mistreated for it. Curley’s wife never fulfilled her dreams because she was a woman. The author emphasizes this through “He says he was gonna put me in the movies”. Says I was a natural. Soon’s he got back to Hollywood. He was gonna write to me about it.” She looked closely at Lennie to see whether she was impressing him. “I never got that letter,” she said.” (Steinbeck 89) This infers that she was forced to be with Curley. It could have been her mother who threw away the letter. She only did get with Curley because of the social status he had, not because she liked him. “Coulda been in the movies, an’ had nice clothes.” (Steinbeck 89) She wanted to have more freedom to do what she
the character of Curley’s wife. Refer closely to the text in your answers to support your views. Of Men and Mice is not kind in its portrayal of women. In fact, women are treated with contempt throughout the course of the book. Steinbeck generally depicts women as troublemakers who bring ruin to men and drive them mad. Curley’s wife, who walks the ranch as a temptress seems to be a prime example of the destructive tendency. Despite the author’s rendering, Curley’s wife emerges as a relatively complex
Without a doubt one of the most intriguing characters within the story Of Mice and Men is Curley’s wife. In this novella women are perceived as items rather than equal human beings. Curley’s wife represents the false hope that comes with ideas of The American Dream. According to Dictionary.com the definition of The American Dream is “the ideals of freedom, equality, and opportunity traditionally held to be available to every American”. If this is true then as an American she should have the ability
Of Mice and Men is a novel set on a ranch in the Salinas Valley in California, during the Great Depression of the 1930s by John Steinbeck. It was the first work to bring Steinbeck’s national recognition as a writer. The book addresses the real hopes and dreams of working-class America. Steinbeck's short novel raises the lives of the poor and dispossessed to a higher, symbolic level. The title suggests that plans of Mice and Men often go awry, a reference to Robert Burn’s poem "To a Mouse." Since
“ One of the hardest things in life, is letting go of what you thought was real.” In Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck there were a lot of dreams that slipped away. Curleys Wife had a dream of being in the movies, George and Lennie had a dream of owning their own ranch, and Candy had a dream of never getting fired. Curleys Wife had a dream of being a star in the cuties. “ Coulda been in the movies, an had nice clothes- All them nice clothes they wear ya know? (89).” In her younger years she met
Why is Curleys Wife never named in “Of Mice and Men” Have any of your guys read Of Mice And Men? That book just gives me mixed feelings. Have any of you ever had questions about the book regarding Curleys Wife. I know I have. In the book by John Steinbeck, Curley’s Wife’s name is never mentioned. Any of you ever noticed that? I know in my 2nd period English Class it was a frequently asked question. Well here is why I think that she was never named. To me the biggest reason that Steinbeck never
It had only been a couple of months since Lennie and his best pal, George Milton came to the ranch looking for work. “He was strange, he hardly ever spoke, goddamit I should have known to never hire such a punk,” states the Boss. Apparently Curley Wife had wondered in the barn looking for a way out of summer heat as she usually does, there she found Lennie. Old Candy was the first to see the body and
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. For example, calmly responding to the attempts of Curley’s wife framing Crooks, Candy responded, “If you was to do that, we’d tell,” he said quietly. “We’d tell about you framin’ Crooks.” “Tell an’ be ---,” she cried. “Nobody’d listen to you an’ you know it. Nobody’d listen to you.”(81). In this situation, Curley’s wife has a strong effect on the migrant workers
Curley’s wife is the only woman from the novel of mice and men written by John Steinbeck. She is the wife of the boss’s son Curley. She has no friends besides Curley as the live on a ranch with all of the workers who are all men. She tries to speak to men throughout the novel but none of them want anything to do with her. She is lonely and bored because of this. She is a very pretty and young woman, when she is first mentioned in the novel when talking to George and Lennie in the bunk house ‘she
re are many similarities between the film Shrek and the novela Of Mice and Men. Three categories that I have examples for are, mismatched friendships, antagonists, and the role of women. The first category is mismatched friendships. In Shrek, Donkey tags around with Shrek like Lennie tags around with George in Of Mice and Men. Also they both have their bad moments in each story. In Shrek, Donkey and Shrek are fighting and arguing all the time, but they still have good, friendly moments, such as
In the book Of Mice and Men, the single women that appeared in the book resented herself as an object. The statement "Women today are more often treated by men as equals rather than objects" can be true or false. A man that goes to "Gentleman 's Cubs every night is a different man that studies at Harvard Law School. A striper is going to be a different person than a CEO of a successful business. It’s all about how you present yourself. In Of Mice and Men, Curley 's wife presents herself in a seductive
Of Mice and Men takes place during the Great Depression. The main Characters Lennie Small and George Melton, travel together to different work farms. This is odd to most people, during this time it is no sense of brotherhood. It is every man for himself, nobody travels together. George is like lennie older brother that takes care of him. From the book we can infer that lennie is cognitively impaired by his actions and how George says he acts just like a kid. In his Novella Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck
In the novel Of Mice and Men very few characters have power over others, but the ones that do show it throughout the story. Curley being the bossś son has power over everyone in the ranch and no one dares to cross him. Curleyś wife is automatically given power by branching off of curley's power. She also gains power through her own little tricks. George doesn't have much power, but he does have power over Lennie.They all have power that benefits their lives at the ranch. George has had power over
There are many themes in “Of Mice and Men” by John Steinbeck. A few themes are friendships, American dream, woman's rights, and the working class. But the theme I chose is friendship. Steinbeck portrays friendship as a big part of the book, and there are many ups and downs in friendships in “Of Mice and Men.” I believe that most of the friendships are very odd or just not good, true friendships. Lennie and George, Curley and Curley’s wife, and Crooks and the rest of the workers, are the friendships
The idea of gaining power is an important aspect for both characters and people in reality. The pursuit of power can be the fuel for dreams, goals, and development in both characters and real people. This idea is present throughout the novel Of Mice and Men and plays an important role in the development of the characters. In the book ,written by John Steinbeck, two migrant workers travel to a ranch in California in hopes of getting money to carry out their dream, and at the ranch many people they
many characters in the novel Of Mice and Men because the outcasts are usually the people that endure loneliness. Of Mice and Men is about two migrant workers, George and Lennie, that attain work anywhere they can. They dream of a place where they can live on their own, but when an event happens it causes their dreams to be crushed. In Steinbeck’s novel Of Mice and Men, loneliness is an important theme that is revealed through the characters of Crooks and Curley’s wife. Loneliness is displayed by many