Tight Sausages In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

After Lennie has inadvertently murdered Curley’s wife, Curley’s lynch mob go out in search of Lennie. George’s decision is almost inevitable to spare Lennie’s life, rather than let Curley and his gang destroy the bit of life Lennie has.

Though Curley’s Wife is portrayed as a villain throughout most of the novel, we learn through her tragic story she tells Lennie that she is a victim of society. Lennie may have been the worst person for her to tell, as he is the only person on the farm who literally doesn't understand and process things with his brain like the others can. I can still understand her because it always feels good to get things off of your chest, regardless of who you are expressing yourself to. Take what you can get, and if you can only get Lennie, so be it. Her venting to Lennie can be seen as a plea for forgiveness.

The moment Curley’s wife waltzed into the barn the scene was set, the person that Lennie had been warned not to converse with had entered the room. Lennie used all his willpower not to speak to her, but alas she overpowers him, and a conversation ensued after she noticed the dead puppy, and then told Lennie her life story. she told him that she didn’t like curley and that she could’ve been an actress, but it never seemed to work out, and now she’s stuck on a ranch with an unappreciative husband and a bunch of men that won’t talk to her. A short while into the conversation Lennie explains to Curley’s wife about his love for soft things, to which she says that everybody likes soft things and that he must like linen. She then tells him that she enjoys playing with her hair on account of how soft it is and tells him that he can feel it if he would like to. This would prove to be the biggest mistake of her short life. Lennie grabbed her hair and said something to the effect of “thats nice” after a few seconds Curley’s wife became worried that Lennie was going to “muss” up her hair, and told him to let go, but he didn't. Curley’s wife then proceeded to scream, which scared Lennie and only caused him to hold on tighter and cover her mouth in an attempt to quiet her, when she began to struggle Lennie shook her, which made her fall silent. Lennie set her down in the hay, and realized that he’d done something bad, very bad, he had killed Curley’s wife

While Crooks, a victim of racial prejudice, expresses his isolation openly, he also socializes with the other workers on the job and while playing horseshoes with them. Curley’s wife, on the other hand, cannot talk to anyone without suffering the consequences of a jealous husband: “I get lonely,’ she said. “You can talk to people, but I can’t talk to nobody but Curley. Else he gets mad. How’d you like not to talk to anybody?” (87) More specifically,after meeting him that same night, Curley’s wife ran away from home to marry Curley to spite her mother. She further confessed to Lennie she doesn’t even like Curley. As a result, she left one situation hoping to move closer to capturing her dreams, but her companion’s jealous and violent behavior prevents her from even socializing with others.(88) Therefore, she went from living with multiple people to living with only Curley, who is supposed to be her companion and someone she

This creates conflict between the two because Lennie starts to grip Curley’s wife’s hair making her yell out. This causes Lennie to hold on to the hair tighter trying to quiet her down. His strong grip breaks Curley’s wife’s neck, killing her. The third conflict in chapter 5 is person vs. fate. Earlier in the book, George, Lennie’s companion, tells Lennie to go the brush where they stayed in the beginning of the book if he does anything bad. “I done a real bad thing,’ he said ‘I shouldn’t of did

By looking more closely at the story, one can see that Curley’s wife is also a metaphor which symbolizes the way which other people looked upon women in the society of the 1930’s. Curley’s wife represents a whole marginalized group in the American society at that time. In the novel, characters are never fully developed, but instead appear as outlines or symbols of real people. Candy, Crooks, and Curley's wife represent the discriminated groups of age, race, and sex. Curley’s wife has been given an overall picture in the eyes of George and Lennie before they even meet her, by Candy. The picture Candy paints about her hints at how she tends to give all the men on the ranch ‘the eye’. Nobody really knows Curley’s wife because nobody ever talks to her and listens to what she really has to say. Curley’s wife wants attention. She wants people to notice her. She is the only woman on the ranch out of all the men. She wears fancy clothes and nice make up to make her look beautiful and

George and Lennie explain their plans to Candy, who right away offers $350 in exchange for permission to live and work with them. Their joy is overshadowed when Curley attacks Lennie. In response, Lennie catches Curley’s fist and crushes it. With the fear that Lennie might hurt him more should he tell the boss, Curley keeps quiet and says instead that his hand got caught in a machine. A few says later, Lennie is sitting in the barn with his now dead puppy when Curley’s wife walks in. She tells Lennie about how she wanted to be a movie star but instead married Curley and is very lonely. She then talks about how soft her hair is, asking Lennie if he would like to feel it. Lennie agrees and strokes her head too hard, causing her to scream. He covers her mouth, muffling her screams and cries for help. Lennie becomes frightened and scared that George will leave him and unintentionally breaks her neck. Lennie runs to the spot where George told him to

Therefore, although his incredible strength has allowed him to be one of the best workers on the field, capable of lifting a four-hundred-pound bale of hay alone, Lennie is instead viewed as violent or as a joke by others. Crooks, the stable buck, mocks Lennie, taunting him that if George is gone, “[t]hey’ll take ya to the booby hatch. They’ll tie ya up with a collar, like a dog” (Steinbeck 72), indicating that the others will send him to an insane asylum. Later in the novel, after accidentally breaking Curley’s wife’s neck to get her to stop screaming and attracting attention, none of the other men, including George, defend him. Curley, upon seeing his dead wife, is furious and swears to punish Lennie: “‘I’m gonna get him. I’m going for my shotgun. I’ll kill the big son-of-a-bitch myself’” (Steinbeck 96). Lennie is shown no mercy after the crime, emphasizing how his society treats the mentally challenged.

Because Lennie is confused he grabs her hair and tries to make her stop yelling. But because Lennie does not know how to control his own strength, he squeezes Curley’s wife’s neck too hard and crushes her spine. Lennie then flees the ranch because Curley wants to kill him for what he did to his wife. So Lennie is not brutally murdered by Curley, George finds Lennie and, because he cannot get him out of trouble, shoots Lennie. Lennie’s uncontrollable strength and ignorance destroyed his, George and Candy’s dream

Relating to Crooks as an equal, they share the plan to buy a farm. Race is forgotten, until Curley’s wife appears. Forgetting to remember that he is black, Crooks’s orders her out of his room when she becomes belligerent and insulting. The backlash is immediate. Curley’s wife attacks Crooks in the most despicable display of racism in the novel. Warning him to remember his “place” and stay in it, she reminds Crooks that she can have him “strung up on a tree so easy it ain’t even funny,” implying that she has the power to kill him by accusing him of rape or some other heinous assault. The threat is chilling because Crooks knows it’s true. His word means nothing, and Lennie and Candy’s testimony would not save him from her false

Another very important event of the novel is Curley’s wife death. Lennie is blamed for having killed her, although she could have easily avoided this by not talking to Lennie. He speaks to him as if he were a baby, and, since he tells her that he likes to pet soft things, she asks him to touch her hair. “Feel right aroun’ there an’ see how soft it is.” Lennie cannot stop, and when she orders him to leave her he holds on.Curley’s wife starts screaming and, to make her stop and not get into trouble with Curley, Lennie puts his hand on her mouth. He doesn’t realize how strong he is, and he kills Curley’s wife by breaking her neck. “[…] her body flopped like a fish. And then she was still, for Lennie had broken her neck.”

Curley’s Wife’s mistake in allowing Lennie to stroke her hair even though warnings were given about her from George to Lennie foreshadows her own death. "Don 't you even take a look at that b*tch. I don 't care what she says and what she does... You leave her be." (Steinbeck 16). This is another example of foreshadowing because Lennie couldn’t keep his hands off of things in the past and tells the reader that he might do something bad to her in the future. George is attempting to keep Lennie away from Curley’s Wife because he is aware of the possible consequences of their interaction, especially as Curley is the ranch boss’ son. Lennie 's accidental killing of Curley 's wife was the situation that George had been dreading from when they met her on the ranch. “She took Lennie 's hand and put it on her head. "Feel right aroun ' there an ' see how soft it is." Lennie 's big fingers fell to stroking her hair.” (Steinbeck 54). Lennie can 't keep his hands off of soft things and covers Curley’s Wife’s mouth when she yells for him to let go of her hair, strangling her by unawareness of his own strength. George

Curley’s wife is treated with very little respect because of the small amount of power she has, which depicts Steinbeck’s lesson that people with less power are treated differently and then go on to treat others unequally, as well. Curley’s wife has a flirty reputation and often goes to talk to the men on the ranch even though she knows she shouldn't be. Shortly after Lennie and George are first introduced to Curley’s wife, George remarks, “Gosh, she was purty.” George is shocked and fiercely tells Lennie, “Don't you even take a look at that bitch. I don't care what she says and what she does. I seen ‘em poison before, but I never seen no piece of jail bait worse than her. You leave her be”(Steinbeck 32). Lennie’s initial reaction of Curley’s wife is not uncommon for the lack of intelligence he has. George’s fierce attitude toward Curley’s wife when he calls her

The final part of this answer is the predator that lies within Curley’s wife, the one that preys on other’s disadvantages. This is shown in many scenes, where she takes advantage of Lennie’s mental instability

Curley’s wife is a lonely and Naïve, and that makes her an easy prey. She is the only woman on the ranch she is a lonely woman. Her husband, Curley, is a mean and over powering man, uses her to pick fights with other guys. He is a terrible husband who not only is mean to his wife but also leads us to believe that he beats her up. Curley’s wife usually would listen to her records but Curley even breaks those. Her flirtatious nature is what gets her into trouble, and that also leads her to her death. Lennie is a gentle giant who doesn’t mean to hurt anybody but accidentally does. In the case of Lennie, Curley’s wife does not know what she is getting in for. Curley’s wife flirtatious nature is a harsh reality but as an innocent person get her in to trouble.