Of Mice And Men Curley's Wife

Steinbeck's novel 'Of Mice and Men' explores the everyday lives of migrant workers during the Great Depression. In this era, American men were forced to leave their families and become 'drifters'. These were people who didn't have a fixed job and continually moved from place to place.

This is one example of where instead of using her name the ranch workers refer her as Curley’s wife. After finishing this book one question will always be a mystery, what is the name of Curley’s wife. Her lack of identity in the book, might imply that she is not a woman, but rather a possession of her husband. Steinbeck perhaps, portrayed her this way, so that the reader could recognize how society saw women. “ You gotta husband’. You got no call foolin aroun’ with other guys…” (Steinbeck, 77). This is another quote that shows after marriage, a girl has no rights in talking to people because she belongs o her husband. Society has leaded the life of Curley’s wife into the depths of

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

In the period of the 1930s in America there were lots of forms of discrimination: one of them was sexism. Women were not seen as equal to men: they had fewer rights than men, were paid less and most of them were only allowed to take care of domestic chores. In that period of time, women started realizing how submitted they were to men, so they began having ideas on how they could improve their lives and gain more independence. They had their own American Dream.

Steinbeck has written ''Of Mice And Men '' about an adventure of George and Lennie trying to accomplish their American dream's during the Great Depression during the 1930's where thousands of people lost their jobs in the Wall Street Crash making them feel hopeless. George and Lennie come to work at a ranch near Soledad in California. There they meet fellow ranch mates and a woman called Curley's Wife. In this essay I will focus on how Curley's Wife's personality and actions change throughout the novella and who she affect her and other bunkmates throughout the novella. In addition to that I would be showing how Steinbeck creates tension by using Curleys Wife.

”Wha’s the matter with me?’ she cried. ‘Ain’t I got a right to talk to nobody? Whatta they think I am, anyways?” (Steinbeck 87) In the novella Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, Curley’s wife is discriminated against because she is a woman living in the 1930s when few females could live economically independent of men. By choosing not to name her, Steinbeck reinforces her insignificance on the ranch and her dependence on Curley. While a misfortunate victim of isolation, Curley’s wife exerts unexpected power attempting to mask her pain.

After the loss of Candy’s dog, he becomes lonely but has to find a way to overcome loneliness. John Steinbeck creates Candy to be an old and crippled man. Candy, since he is a older man, might not get as much work. That isn't the only reason. Steinbeck describes Candy with, “a round stick-like wrist, but no hand” (18). At this moment, George and Lennie are meeting and observing Candy for the first time. Throughout the story, the reader does not hear of Candy doing much work on the ranch. He “[shifts] his broom” on the first day but that might be the only deed he does (18). The farm workers stereotype him to be weak because he is old and only has one hand. When we first meet Candy, we learn that Candy has one main friend. That is his

“A guy needs somebody- to be near him...A guy goes nuts if he ain’t got nobody. Don’t make no difference who the guy is, long’s he’s with you”(Steinbeck 72). The Great Depression, which occurred in the 1930s, was rough on migrant workers, young and old, women, and black people alike. Candy, Curley’s wife, and Crooks undergo loneliness and discrimination during the Great Depression. John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men characters Candy, Curley’s wife, and Crooks, like so many people during the 1930s, experience harrowing times of being isolated from everybody else during those times. The things they face are being separated in a different room, being shunned by men who think they are above them, and people thinking that they are too old and useless. The theme of loneliness is expressed and felt in the novella Of Mice and Men through the isolation and discrimination of Candy, Curley’s wife, and Crooks.

During the Great Depression, families lost everything as banks crashed and dust swirled over the barren landscape of the Midwest. Parents left their homes and bundled their children and worldly possessions into their cars and headed west to the land of hope in California. In this time, it is difficult to think of groups bonding together, especially as workers compete for limited agricultural jobs on ranches. However, while John Steinbeck’s characters in the novella Of Mice and Men isolate themselves in some ways from the world, they are also interconnected in webs of community throughout their ranch. Curley’s wife, Crooks, George Milton, and Lennie Small are all

“By Christ, he’s gotta talk when he’s spoke to. What the hell are you gettin’ in for?” (Steinbeck, 25) Of Mice and Men was written by author John Steinbeck. This novel contains a guy named Curley who is the boss's son and is evil. Even though he is mean and acts hard he is overprotective of his wife. The overprotectiveness in Curley in Of Mice and Men clearly symbolizes Steinbeck’s theme that caring for someone means that you need to invest your time in them and give them attention.

Curley's wife proves to be a flirtatious character in John Steinbeck’s novel Of Mice and Men. She is the only woman on the ranch and uses her beauty as power to flirt with the guys on the ranch and make her husband jealous. The other guys on the ranch know that she is trouble and refer to her as “jailbait” or “tart” because of the way she dresses and acts to attract attention from all of the guys. Although she is known as trouble on the ranch, she talks a lot about how she was offered to be in the shows, but that dream was crushed by her mother who said that she was too young. During the time this novel was written, women were not well respected and this explains her behaviour throughout the story. Over all, Curley's wife demonstrates to be a tempting, good looking, yet lonely women who often uses her looks to get what she wants.

Throughout the novel, Steinbeck continuously shows us how lonely Curley’s wife is and how she attempts to cope with it. We meet Curley’s wife at the end of the second chapter, where she says she is looking for Curley in the bunkhouse. She is quick to identify George and Lennie as the new workers. We also find her in Chapter four walking into Crooks’ room with the pretext, again, of looking for Curley. In the context of the times, this may have been seen as inappropriate as Crooks is a black stable hand. She was the only woman on the ranch and the fact that she is driven to talk to the workers indicates how isolated she felt. Her sexuality isolates her from the other characters. She is bored and

“We never truly know another person until we walk in their shoes”, a phrase that’s been drilled and squashed into our brains since we began comprehending that there’s more to the world than just ourselves. “Don’t judge people”, we’ve been told, “Live someone’s life before you apply it to your own”. Life lessons are abundant, but why? Well, according to classical literature such as Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird” and John Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men”, because they’re true.

Women of the 20th century were as powerless as a fragile ant, and yet, men still used them as scapegoats. In Of Mice and Men, written by John Steinbeck, is about two immigrant workers on their day to day lives during the Great Depression. One of the “antagonists” of the novel was the wife of a small and rebellious man named Curley. Curley’s wife was talked about as soon as Lennie and George, the main characters, arrived on the ranch and the men depicted her as a tart or a prostitute. At the beginning of the novel, the reader views her as an unpleasant, naive and troublesome character.

‘Of mice and men’ is a tale of loneliness and hardship felt by the people living in America during the 1930 's. Written by John Steinbeck and published in 1937, it tells the heartbreaking story of two ranch workers during the depression; George Milton and Lennie Small. At the time America was very poor, with a shortage of jobs so people had to travel in search of new jobs. As many people were constantly moving, lasting friendships or relationships were hard to come across. People became scared to have friendships, scared of each other making them lonely and isolated. Most of the characters lived by ‘every man for himself’; only having to care for themselves, not having to worry about others and therefore