Of Mice And Men Quotes For Curley's Wife

“O.K. Someday-we’re gonna get the jack together and we’re gonna have a little house and a couple of acres an’ a cow and some pigs and-‘’(pg.14) Lennie and George’s dream was in Lennie’s words to “Live off the fatta the lan’.” Everyone in life has a different dream that they want, but sometimes the road to that dream has a couple detours. When people get off of the road they try as hard as they can to get back on it, but sometimes you just can’t. A dream has a very personalized route to get to it but with courage, strength, and persistence a dream will come true.

Curley’s Wife is one of the many who had a dream she could not achieve because she is a woman. Steinbeck writes, “Well I ain’t told you this to nobody before. Maybe i ought’n to. I don't like Curley. He ain't a nice fella. And because she had confided in him she moved closer to Lennie and sat beside him. Coulda been in the movies, an’ had nice clothes- all them nice clothes like they wear. An’ I coulda sat in them big hotels, an’ had pitchers took of me.” (89). This was Curley’s Wife’s dream, but since she was a women in the 1920s she had to give it up because it was not realistic. Instead she had to marry Curley because she wanted to get away from her mother who she thinks ruined her chance of being a famous actress. She does not even like Curley at all but that is just what she needed to do at that time. Not only that Steinbeck writes, “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.” (89). This shows that, Curley’s Wife was even a good actress and maybe she could have achieved her ‘american dream’, but again she is a woman and it is not possible for

In this essay I will show how Steinbeck presents Curley’s wife in a number of ways throughout the novel ‘Of Mice and Men’, showing both how she is portrayed as a ‘nice girl’ as well as a ‘floozy’. This novel was set during the great depression and is written around two key themes of the American dream, which every ‘ranch hand’ owned their own patch of land, and loneliness, the only common feeling that each individual in the novel feared. Loneliness was the main theme that caused Curley’s wife to be interpreted in a negative way by the other ranch men.

Curley’s wife is first introduced to the story by John Steinbeck characterizing her with red fingernails, red shoes, and a dress. To visually

She has no one to talk to because her husband can’t even spend time with her. Curley’s wife is the only woman on the ranch. She is bored and lonely, but her trails to interact with the ranch men only serve to push them further away from her. In one of the scenes, she appears at the doorway, asking where is her husband and complains she is lonely. Candy tells her to go and spend time with her husband and she can’t be fooling with other men on the ranch. Curley’s wife protested that she can’t find nobody to talk to and hates staying in the house “Well, I ain’t giving you no trouble. Think I don’t like to talk to somebody ever’ once in awhile? Think I like to stick in that house alla time?” (Steinbeck 78), and she also mentions in another scene when she talks about her husband staying at home, he does not talk to her, he just talks about the next person he’ll beat or punch. “The girl flared up. ‘Sure I gotta husband’. You all seen him. Swell guy, ain’t he? Spends all his time sayin’ what he’s gonna do to guy she don’t like, and he don’t like nobody. Think I’m gonna stay in that two-by-four house and listen how Curley’s gonna lead with his left twice, and then bring in the ol’ right cross? ‘One-two,’ he says. ‘Jus’ the ol’ one-two an’ he’ll go down.’” (Steinbeck 78). Her life is one of loneliness and she has nothing to be happy to. By getting to marry Curley, she gave up on her dreams of being a Hollywood star. Now she has no friendships and no

In his short book or novella Of Mice and Men, author John Steinbeck draws attention to migrant farm workers in the Depression era of the 1930s. Through his story he looks at human nature in the areas of men’s friendship, loneliness, and meanness or bullying. This essay looks at Steinbeck’s depiction of the tendency to bully others and that the tendency seems to come from their own weakness. This meanness is shown in the relationships of the characters. The bullying is physical, psychological, and emotional and nearly all of the characters demonstrate it, including George, Candy, Crooks, and Curley’s wife and it is contrasted to the unintentional violence of Lennie.

John Steinbeck’s book Of Mice and Men is an extraordinary novel with unique characteristics. The novel is about an uncommon friendship between two extremely different individuals who are living and working together. This story belong to the genres tragic realistic fiction, historical fiction and drama. The linking between the novel and The Great Depression emphasizes throughout the story, which makes the novel very realistic and down to earth. The author touches on several themes such as: the unreachable American dream, the economic injustices, loneliness, friendship and people’s propensity for cruelty. In this book review, we will get into a deeper understanding of what the actual story means.

The character of Curley’s Wife is very hard to unravel, as throughout the book, Steinbeck’s representation of women through characters such as George and Candy, is very harsh. This is because the sociological opinion at that time was that they were either, mothers, sisters, or prostitutes,

'Of Mice and Men' is based around two main themes; loneliness, and the fragility of dreams. Each main character connects with both of these themes at some stage throughout the novel. Curley's wife is no exception to this. At the beginning of the novel the reader views her as an unpleasant, naive and troublesome character. However, as the novel progresses, the reader is gradually exposed to another side of Curley's wife, one that suggests she is merely a

Some characters in this novel are alienated by mainstream society because they do not fit society’s ideal image of a person. And they are all not accepted as human beings. Throughout John Steinbeck’s novel, Of Mice and Men, the social injustice of how people were treated during the Great Depression is explored through the characters Crooks, Curley’s wife, and Lennie, to show that society actually needs to become stronger than it really is.

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.

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.

"You got no right to come in my room. This here's my room. Nobody got any right in here but me," Crooks said sharply (68). In the book Of Mice and Men, two men travel together to find work to raise enough money to live the American dream. Lennie Small and George Milton, two hard working men, believe they can accomplish the ultimate dream. Lennie and George work together to go through each hardship and challenge they encounter on the ranch. Through the characters Carlson, Crooks, and Curley's wife, John Steinbeck says the “virus” cruelty, can change a person into having a bitter and negative attitude.

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

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