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Of Mice And Men Curleys Wife

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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

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