How Does Steinbeck Present Curley's Wife

1) What does Curley’s Wife’s entrance suggest about her?-Her entrance into the ranch portrays her as one being attention-seeking because Steinbeck describes her when she walks in to be wearing bright red and heavy make-up on a ranch were the colour is depressingly dull. “She had full, rouged lips, heavily made up, red mules”. The second being flirty because of her description states that she is suggesting positions describing her. “She put her Hands behind her back and leaned against the door frame so that her body was thrown forward.” We can suggest that she is very flirty especially on the ranch. Her entrance is written so that we can infer that she a lot about her and that is she is very flirty among the many men in the ranch.

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

Sympathy. Feelings of pity and sorrow for someone else's misfortune. In the novel 'Of Mice and Men', there a numerous characters you may feel sympathetic toward. Most especially Curley's wife. I hold the most compassion for Curley's wife because she was misunderstood and innocently killed.

Whenever she tries to converse with the men, they try to avoid her because she is known to flirt; the men do not want to cause trouble and lose their jobs. After Crooks told Curley’s wife to return to her house, she said, “Well, I ain’t giving you no trouble. Think I don’t like to talk to somebody ever’ once in a while? Think

Curley's wife tells Lennie about how she hates Curly and she had opportunities to be in a picture/movie and make something out of herself. Curley's wife even meet a guy that was going to help her make it big, but he never responded back, at this point she knew her dreams weren't going flourish so she settled for Curley to get out of her hometown. Curley's wife used Curley as an option b in a sense because she never wanted a husband as controlling and cruel as Curley, but he was the only way to somewhat of a bright future for her. Curley wife tells Lennie about herself because she looks at Lennie as a child-like gentleman and the irony is, of course, Lennie murdering her in the end, but she just was tired of not being able to have contact everyone

In the novel, the character Curley’s wife is the wife of the Boss’ son and does not have a name that everyone can call her besides Curley’s wife. She is shown to be the only women in the ranch. She presents herself, as a dolled up woman who seeks men’s attention and a flirtatious character. Firstly, when Curley’s wife is introduced, she was seen attractive.

I could get you strung up on a tree so easy it ain't even funny." This quote tells us that Curley's Wife knows that she is above Crooks in the social hierarchy since she is white and he is black and has a disability. When she talks to Crooks she is also very confident and disrespectful and uses racist language. When you zoom into the quote you will also see a ellipses in the quote which shows the tension and anger which Curley's Wife would never show to the other men even Lennie. Steinbeck may have used this language to emphasise the villain in herself. Which tells us that if she had more power she would use it in a negative way. You can also tell that Curley's Wife is releasing her anger towards Crooks since he is one of the only people she can show her

This quote shows his desire for connection and his loneliness as a result of his isolation on the ranch. However, other characters perceive Crooks differently, labeling him as standoffish and grumpy due to his protective attitude. Later in the scene Curley's wife comes in and asserts her dominance over crooks by saying "I could get you strung up on a tree so easy it ain't even funny" (Steinbeck, 80). This quote demonstrates Curley's wife's abusive attitude towards Crooks, using racial slurs (earlier but I didn't want to include it) and threats to assert her superiority.

Some may think it is just sexism at its finest that determines the books way of calling Curley’s wife as Curley’s and nameless from there on out, but that is not the only resort to the name calling. Curley’s wife is not happy with Curley, maybe the relationship started off good at first but Mrs.Curley realizes that her marrying Curley was really just isolating herself from the rest of the word and gave her no say in her own life. "Awright, cover 'im up if ya wanta. Whatta I care? You bindle bums think you're so damn good. Whatta ya think I am, a kid? I tell ya I could of went with shows. Not jus' one, neither. An' a guy tol' me he could put me in pitchers…" (102) Curley’s wife seems to never be fully heard by anyone in the ranch on what she wants in her life or her opinions on others. This caused her prejudice because even to George and Lennie Mrs.Curley was just “Curley’s wife” and still had no say or opinion in what she was talking about. This later cost her her own life when Lennie fails to listen to her cries when he accidentally choked her to

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

Steinbeck portrayed that cynicism of society is harmful because an innocent action can be misunderstood and cause grave errors. Curley’s wife was flirtatious by nature and George knew that Curley's wife was trouble and he warned Lennie, “Don’t you even take a look… I don’t care what she says and what she does… I never have seen no piece of jailbait worse than her” (Steinbeck 32). Curley’s wife was flirtatious and she would throw herself at men out of boredom. But, if Curley ever found out that a man had even glanced at her he would throw the man in jail. Which was exactly what Curley was ready to do when Lennie accidentally killed his wife. Everyone thought it was on purpose, even if they knew it was an accident they would treat the situation

Curley’s wife acts very provocative, playful, childish and flirtatious, this is because she is very lonely and has no power at all. Nobody knows the real person she is because no one ever dares to get in trouble with her. Curley’s wife is often presented negatively by Steinbeck such as when she is cruel to crooks after his hopes have been raised by the dream. This is easily shown when Curley’s wife snaps at Crooks. “keep your place then, Nigger.

says “I don’t like Curley, he aint a nice guy.” From this it is simple

When Curley’s wife dies, Curley, rather than showing the reaction that would be expected of a man whose wife has just been killed. He does not appear to grieve at all in any way, barely looking at the body, or regarding the her death into his immediate future plans. Instead, his first thought is towards seeking revenge and hunting down Lennie. It is perhaps this moment in the novel which epitomises the way in which Curley is aggressive, nasty, and shows no concern

Lady Macbeth has the power over her husband to persuade him into doing anything she requests. She manipulates Macbeth with incredible efficiency by overruling all of his thoughts and changing his perspective on the present. Even though the many tasks that need to be completed are difficult to understand why they need to be done, Lady Macbeth will always convince Macbeth to do it. Her husband often tells her that she has a “masculine soul” which is obvious due to her murderous and envious actions. When the time came to kill king Duncan, Macbeth believes that his wife has gone insane and tells her that the crime they were about to commit was a horrible idea. As a result of his questioning, Lady Macbeth says that executing the crime will show his loyalty to her. On the night of the assassination Lady Macbeth watched the guards of the castle become drunk and unaware of what was going on. Lady Macbeth sent her husband into the castle to kill King Duncan. The married couple fled the scene leaving the guards covered in the evidence. Lady Macbeth and Macbeth are stained with the blood of their victims and the feeling of guilt in their stomach.