In chapter 1, Steinbeck introduces us to George and Lennie, two migrant workers who are traveling to work on a ranch in Soledad, California. The odd duo is trying to survive and save up money in the 1930s: Great Depression.…
Curley’s wife is a villain because she shows some villainess signs that she had never shown before like say to Lennie that she was happy about it happening to him and let Lennie touch and feel her hair until her untimely death when Lennie grab her frightenly and twisted her neck so she would stop screaming. Here are some evidence that she is a villain…
In the 1937 novel Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck there is a very powerful aspect of male dominance in the text. From a feminist’s point of view this story degrades women, and categorizes them as sexual objects.…
Steinbeck indicates through Curley’s wife’s attention seeking personality throughout the book that women in general are disrespected on their gender rather than their capabilities or personality resulting in a loss of identity and putting up a façade. Curley’s wife represents not all, but most women in the early 1900s, she is overlooked upon by the men on the ranch so she uses her looks to get their attention. She simply does this because she is lonely and has nothing else to do.…
In the Book Of Mice And Men, “she's a jailbate set on a trigger”from George…
Of Mice and Men is an example of why we need to be our brother’s keeper.…
The story Of Mice and Men takes place during the Great Depression. Throughout the film Of Mice and Men, the relationship between George and Lennie is similar to John Steinbeck’s novel. However, the film is different because Curley's wife is amused by Lennie’s stupidity, Lennie’s hallucination, and George does not hesitate to shoot Lennie.…
The way that John Steinbeck describes Curley’s wife throughout the book shows that he does not really like women. He makes her a women that only cares about her looks, and just flirts with the men on the ranch, “She put her hands behind her back and leaned against the door frame so that her body was thrown forward”(Steinbeck 31). Steinbeck makes her act as if she is literally throwing herself towards the men. She is married to Curly, not so happily, yet she still flirts with almost every man working at the ranch. She walks around with a full face of makeup, lipstick and her face roughed, and she wears dresses and heels with ostrich feathers. She has no real job, so she…
Irrefutably, dreams are a key theme in the novel, and Curley’s wife’s broken dream had been more deliberated than most. She thinks that she “coulda been in the movies, an’ had nice clothes”, but her hopes were entirely unrealistic, she was waiting for a letter that would never arrive, men were only interested in her because she was pretty. Curley’s wife thinks that she had ‘talent’ but in reality the men that spoke to her were only after one thing- and it wasn’t a Hollywood career for her. Pinning her hopes on one dream is very childlike which is precisely what her character is- a young, naive girl who is far too immature to already be married. She left her mum to spite her because she was too naïve to see that her mother was right for not letting her go and now she has no relationship or love with anybody; she is completely segregated in the world. The fact she has no name, and referred to as Curley's property, shows she has no importance amongst the ranch workers but she is actually a complex character who has her own dreams and her poor life quality further provides a hint to the reader that dreams rarely come true and George and Lennie's American Dream will fail as a result of her dream being a failure. Thinking she would be in a better situation if she married the first person she saw turned out to be the biggest mistake of her life and now she is completely trapped even though her life had not even started, she has no friends and no sympathetic ear to listen to her problems and now her dreams can never come true.…
Steinbeck uses the fact that Curley’s wife is the only female of the ranch to post her as a threat to the male ranch workers. When she is first introduced it isn’t pleasant. Candy starts of by saying ‘I seen her give slim the eye’ this instantly gives the reader an idea she is a bit flirtatious. He then continues to say ‘Well, I think Curley’s married…a tart.’ This gives the reader a view of her characteristics and we are put off by them.…
In of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, Curley’s wife sparks much debate and controversy, being an extremely important character in the book as she symbolises the gender inequality and discrimination of the period. At the start of the novella, we assume she is just a plot device, but later on find out that there is much more about her and she has a very important role in the book as being the only woman. During the 1930’s women were treated unequally to men, and weren’t treated with as much respect, which is reflected later when we realise that Curley’s wife isn’t addressed with a name. The attitude to women at the time contrasts with how gender inequality is now; women have the right to vote and they are now appreciated.…
‘Of mice and men’ is set during the Great Depression. When a Dust Bowl in the 1930s, which vastly damaged the economics and agriculture in the US. Hundreds and thousands of farmers lost their jobs and became migrant workers in California. Finding a job in the ranches was really difficult, because the society was cruel to those who are useless. In this book, there are a few minor characters that reflected some important social injustices in the 1930s.…
Steinbeck uses Curley’s wife to represent how many women in the 1930s were classed below men, and how this prejudice allowed their lives to be defined by the men around them. In this passage, Steinbeck has manipulated Curley’s wife’s appearance in order to reinforce our pre judged feelings towards her, based on gossip and rumours told by Candy.…
In John Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men” Curly wife is shown as a person with very…
Often times, women are put down by others. In Of Mice and Men, Being the only woman on the ranch, Curley’s wife was referred to as a so called “tart” by the men. A tart is an offensive term referring to the idea of a temptress. In the novel, Curley’s wife is viewed as a tart by the way she is portrayed. Due to the clothes she wears and the actions she makes, many people come to this untrue conclusion. Therefore, because of this idea and her kindness, she is blamed for the death of her friend, Lennie, at the end of the novel. However, it is clearly perceptible that Curley’s wife is not a temptress nor is she directly responsible for the novels tragedy due to the fact of her loneliness, her not being treated fairly, and her trying to make friends…