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    weeks ago. Wife lives over in the boss’s house, seems like Curley 's even cockier since he got married" Candy doesn’t seem to like the way Curley’s wife is making his job even more difficult. "She 's purty but she got the eye." She’s pretty but has the eye is basically saying that she tends to look for men that she could possibly flirt with, she 's given slim the eye and that seems to make the other guys nervous in case she makes Curley mad in which he will take his anger out on them. She seems

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    Curleys Wife's Death

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    her. Perhaps if Curley payed for attention to her wife, she would have never been interested in the rest of the men, preventing her death. Curley’s wife shows us that she doesn’t like Curley, and wishes she never married him, as the author notes in the book on page 89, “I don’ like Curley. He ain’t a nice fella”. I also think that Curley’s wife is responsible for her own death because she knows how strong and big Lennie is. On page 81, Curley’s wife says, “I’m glad you bust up Curley a little bit.

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    Curley Dentistry

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    (Homepage) Welcome to Burley Dentistry | Charlotte, NC Welcome to Burley Dentistry! For nearly 12 years, Dr. Erika V. Burley and her team have been serving the community of Charlotte, NC — specifically the local areas of South Park, Cotswold, Myers Park, Eastover, Dilworth, and Plaza Midwood. We offer high-quality general, family, cosmetic, and restorative dentistry to those in need. We are dedicated to excellent care and a comfortable, friendly atmosphere that helps our patients feel at home.

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    The Scissor Sharpener There were times when this Scissor Sharpener who was a small dwarfed-like man with a hunchback strangely was on one side of his back, he drove what looked like to me was a very tiny gray van, thinking this was made for small people, he would shout out if you needed anything sharpened? The vision I have has never left me, I will always remember this from his tiny little van, he would open the back doors to reveal a grinding wheel; he would bend over and peer to look at you with

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    Curley is smaller man and a recently wed man to an attractive young lady not to mention the son to The Boss in “Of Mice and Men” by Joseph Steinbeck. In an attempt to cover up his insecurity with both he makes a cover comprised of his bravado and aggressive nature as seen in the book. This is quite clear as he has an overwhelming drive to prove he is better than others both in status and strength. Curley is truly an insecure man at heart as his constant searching for his wife and his suspicion

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    novel, Of mice and Men by John Steinbeck, Curley is a rude, quick-tempered, and self-centered man which shows how he is disliked by the people on the ranch. Curley is a rude person which Steinbeck uses to show how Curley is disliked. For example, when George and lennie just got hired, Curley almost immediately starts to be rude to them. "' By Christ, he's gotta talk when he's spoke to. well what the hell you gettin into it for.'(Steinbeck 25). Because of Curley yelling at George and Lennie without letting

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    two of the minor characters; Curley, the boss’ son, and Slim, the jerkline skinner. The introductory paragraphs of these two characters are interesting because they are highly contrasted. We are first introduced to Curley, “a thin, young

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    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

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    Curleys Wife Analysis

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    Curly’s Wife Curlys Wife is a very powerful and yet powerless character within the novel Of Mice and Men as Steinbeck uses her to reflect the prejudice against women in the 1930s since they had very little rights. Just from her title “Curlys Wife” she has no actual name, this shows that she is just Curlys property and powerless in the sense that she hasn’t got her own individual identity, only an identity through her husband, also she doesn’t have enough power to be called a ‘woman’ instead she

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    nearly came true when she encountered an actor. ‘He says I could go with that show”, but like most young girls was forbade from her mother, ‘my ol’ lady wouldn’ let me”. So having her dream pulled out from underneath her she rebelled, and married Curley. However she always wanted to achieve something of herself and loved attention. “Curley’s wife lay with a half-covering of yellow hay. And the meanness and the planning and the discontent and the ache for attention were all gone from her face.

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