How Is Curley's Wife Powerful

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"Power is two kinds. One is obtained by fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment- Mahatma Gandhi," Curley's Wife thinks she has so much power over everyone else that she leaves them in fear to get in trouble but in reality she just wants to be loved and famous. Of Mice and Men, book written by John Steinbeck, the confusing story to Curley's Wife and all the people's lives she's encountered as she tries to figure out who herself really is and still has a small piece of inspiration in herself of wanting to be who she really is. But there's always something that happens and gets in the way. Through the character of Curley's …show more content…

Curley’s wife is also trying to make herself appear more “attractive” by wearing all red to stand out so the men will think as her more “attractive” so they’ll see her more often because she stands out. “Both men glanced up, for the rectangle of sunshine in the doorway was cut off. A girl was standing there looking in. She had full, rouged lips and wide-spaced eyes, heavily made up. Her fingernails re. Her hair hung in little rolled clusters, like sausages. She wore a cotton house dress and red mules, on the insteps of which were little bouquets of red ostrich feathers. “I’m lookin’ for Curley”, she said. Her voice had a nasal, brittle quality” (Steinbeck 31). This shows how much Curley’s Wife is a “scavenger” for men by going to talk to and see George, Lennie, and Slim for no reason at all and that she lies about “looking for Curley”. All she wants to do is be with other men because she eventually leaves and then Curley comes in the bunkhouse trying to find her. Even though she’s sneaking off with any of the men around the …show more content…

All she really wants is for everybody to see, love, and adore her. So of her to feel loved or adored, she goes around the ranch trying to get all of the men to like her or see her more often and want to be with her. "She went on with her story quickly, before she should be interrupted.'Nother time I met a guy, an' he was in pitchers. Went out to the Riverside Dance Palace with him. He says he was gonna put me in the movies. Says I was a natural. Soon's he got back to Hollywood he was gonna write to me about it.' She looked closely at Lennie to see whether she was impressing him. 'I never got that letter,' she said. 'I always thought my ol' lady stole it. Well I wasn't gonna stay no place where I couldn't get nowhere or make something of myself, an' where they stole your letters. I ast her if she stole it, too, an' she says no. So I married Curley. Met him out to the Riverside Dance Palace that same night.' She demanded, 'You listening'?" (Steinbeck). Curley's Wife had her own plans and thoughts on what she wanted and so she told Lennie, hoping to have someone listen to her at least once because she was tired of being alone with nobody to talk to. As Curley's Wife wanted to explain herself as is that she considers herself special, special as in

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