Curley's Wife In 'Of Mice And Men'
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Section two – Bad Curley’s wife (The EYE) The eye symbolises her malicious act towards the ranch workers. She is femme fettle, she attracted to the men on the ranch despite the fact she already has a husband (Curley) she craves for attention; she needs companionship and she is persistent for love. The negative portrayal portrays she’s upset with the men on the ranch. The men in the ranch are interpleading that she wants to be flirtatious and wants love but she is desperate to find a person that cares about her. Curley’s wife is trying to impress the men on the ranch when she puts on a lot of make up on. This is in evidence from the text “heavily made up.” This indicates that she is trying to amaze them but all the men on the ranch laugh at her …show more content…
In this essay, the author
- Analyzes how the eye symbolises curley's malicious act towards the ranch workers. she craves attention, needs companionship, and is persistent for love.
- Analyzes how curley's wife is like an evil magnet because she is always dragging men in her traps and trying to connect with them.
- Analyzes how steinbeck portrays that women were discriminated because he spectacles her as a man’s property.
- Analyzes how curley's wife smiled, archly, and twitched her body to slim, which interprets that she is flirting with slim.
- Analyzes how steinbeck shows that she is like a weapon because she hurts people and is dangerous. the ranch workers back chat about her as she's mischievous and nave.
She does not have the eye for Curley although that is her husband, this symbolises the fact the he does not treat her with respect because he only need her for sex and cleaning the house and they had to put up with it to survive. Steinbeck portrays that women wear treated incomparable and this reason why Curley’s wife is unfairly characterised they were only saints and sinners. Steinbeck illustrations that women were discriminated because he spectacles her as a man’s property. As women were inadequate and not needed men would take advantage of them. Curley’s wife say’s “nobody can’t blame a person for looking after, she smiled, archly and twitched her body to slim.” This interprets that she is flirting with Slim, Slim rejects her by saying that she is a “tramp” by saying “nobody can’t blame a person for looking after” and smiling at him, archly and twitched her body. By flirting with Slim she is trying to attract him to like her, because she is a young, pretty and naive woman she want someone to get notice her and she want attention; she is begging Slim because she is despite for her love and
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- Explains that the social setting of the novel is important, as it could later explain characters' attitudes towards other people. the great depression was the worst economic disaster in the u.s.
- Analyzes how curley's wife is the most loathed on the ranch. the way she looks and acts leads other characters in the novel to see her as a "tart".
- Analyzes how curley's wife is given a reputation of causing trouble between other characters from different characters in the novel. candy backs that up with "well she got the eye" which could have many meanings.
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- Analyzes how curley's wife is racist towards other people. she calls crooks a "nigger" on numerous occasions but isn't the only person to do that.
- Analyzes how curley started a fight when he thought that there was something going on between his wife and slim. this shows very little trust.
- Explains that dreams are a major reoccurring theme in the novel ‘of mice and men’. when lennie tells curley's wife of his and george’s dream she just says “baloney”.
- Analyzes how lennie, candy and curley's wife were not capable of having their dreams come true, but were full of hope. big dreams often cause tragedies and are sometimes unrealistic.
- Analyzes how curley's wife triggered a mass of emotions between the men, the conflict of killing lennie.
- Analyzes how steinbeck hasn't named curley's wife because he wanted her to be seen as lonely. he may have done it to show the male attitudes towards females.
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- Analyzes how steinbeck foreshadows the consequences of falling into a loveless marriage during this time, and the deterioration of her character.
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- Analyzes how steinbeck expresses candy's loneliness through situational irony, and it shows how badly candy needs a companionship, at all times.
- Analyzes how candy uses "go along and roll your hoop" to show that he has power over curley's wife, and thinks of her as a little girl.
- Analyzes how curley's wife can't fit in with the ranch workers, and demands that they speak with her. through imagery, she shows her need for attention by depicting what happens to black people in that time period.
- Analyzes how curley's wife shows her need for attention by wearing eye-catching clothing around the ranch.
- Analyzes how crooks hides his pleasure with anger when lennie and candy walk in for the first time. he is lonely because of his ethnicity, and uses the rare chance of talking to others by concealing.
- Analyzes how crooks is so lonely, he needs lennie to rant to. he has gotten "sick" from loneliness, and can never be the same around others.
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- Analyzes how curley's wife is a type of character with little discrepancy, moreover being the only woman in the novel. she is heavily insulted and looked upon as inferior.
- Analyzes how lennie is captivated by her alluring beauty, and george cautions him to keep his distance from her. curley's wife understands that her magnetising beauty is the main reason control and her authority.
- Analyzes how steinbeck relates curley's wife to eve in the garden of eden. she brings evil into men’s lives by tempting them in a way they cannot resist.
- Analyzes how the representation of women in of mice and men is critical. lennie and geroge are on the run from the previous ranch where they worked due to encountering trouble with a woman.
- Analyzes how steinbeck's view of her being a "tart" is set when she defines her "full rouged lips" and eyes as "heavily made up." the colour red is symbolic of being sexually stimulating and wears excessive amounts of make-up during the day.
- Analyzes how "bouquets of ostrich feathers" becomes a motif, leaving threatening resonance of the girl in weed.
- Analyzes how lennie is fascinated by curley's wife, while slim and george see her differently. slim recognises her attractiveness, but his disinterest is symbolically shown.
- Analyzes how steinbeck presents another view of curley's wife: she bridles a little at lennie’s attention; she is metaphorically shy away from the fixated attention. both these observations suggest her innocence and vulnerability.
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