Comparing Women In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

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Why do the men miss all the real evidence, and why do the women cover it up?
The Men in the story miss all the real evidence in the story and the women cover it up because the men just look at the evidence from a logical stand point and they went upstairs when they should have been looking down stair. It was way more evidence downstairs then upstairs. For Example, half of The Wrights table is clean and the other half wasn’t almost as if Mrs. Wright stopped for some reason. Also, Mrs. Wright has been making a quilt and the stitching were in odd places. The women realizes the pieces of the quilt is important, but the men miss this because they think that sewing represents the trifles something that occupy the minds of women. The evidence is hidden …show more content…

The House was like her bird’s birdcage she wasn’t allowed out unless told to come out. Mrs. Wright lived a very lonely life. Her husband Mr. Wright was emotionally distant from her. Mr. Wright made her go crazy by killing her precious bird. The reason the house symbolizes isolation was because all Mrs. Wright did was stay in the house and do Housework all day which was pretty normal for a woman to do back in that time period. The bird cage is symbolic for Minnie and her life. She’s was caged just like her pet bird. Mr. Wright caged her from the outside world and since they had no children or telephone in the home to get in touch with anyone on the outside world all she had was him. The bird was symbolic because of the way that it sang. When the bird will sing it will remind Minnie of her old life from when she was young and sang in the choir. The death of the bird was symbolic. “No, Wright wouldn’t like the bird-a thing that sang. She used to sing. He killed that, too”. Mrs. Wright lost it completely when her bird was killed because that was her only source of love, life, and freedom she use to have. Her husband had killed all the joy around her and the last straw for her was when he snapped that bird’s neck, and just as symbolically, he got a taste of his own medicine when she slipped that rope around his neck. Lastly, The Quilt is symbolic because it plays a role in the play. The women notices how the quilt is sewn poorly which means to them Mrs. Wright felt real guilty of killing her husband that she couldn’t sew

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