If you look deeper into her character you will see that she is a nice who is lonely and deserves more. She does not want to be living the life she is. At a first glimpse Curley’s wife seems like Miss Dynamite. She wears red and is very provocative. You firstly meet her when she stands in the doorway of the bunkhouse. “The rectangle of sunshine in the doorway was cut off” It was as if something bad was coming in and that the world should stop and see what was happening. She flirts with the men on the ranch and disobeys her husband, Curley.
Curley’s wife wears very revealing clothes even though she is married and only living on a ranch. Curley’s wife was dangerous. :“She wore a cotton house dress and red mules, on the insteps of which were little bouquets of red ostrich feathers. ” “She had full, rouged lips and wide-spaced eyes, heavily made up. Her fingernails were red. Her hair hung in little rolled clusters, like sausages. ” Curley’s wife had no reason to dress like this if she is not looking to impress any men. She wants more attention from the men who work on the ranch.
On the other hand, Curley’s wife could be doing this because she is bored and has nothing better to do. She has no friends, no future, no respect; she doesn’t even have a name. All she wants is someone to talk to but in her mind the only way she can do this is by flaunting herself to the men to get noticed. This leads her to be perceived as a ‘floozy’ by the men. She represents loneliness and desperation to achieve something better in life. Even though she is very lonely, she comes across as a very pretty woman.
The Essay on Both Curley’s Wife and Crooks
Steinbeck’s novel “Of Mice and Men” was set in the Great depression in 1930s America. The characters reflect the struggles and harsh times many working Americans faced in that era. Isolated, lonely, marginalised and mistrustful, people had to create new lives for themselves. In the novel Steinbeck describes several characters that are vulnerable due to the social context of that time; Crooks and ...
She flaunts herself by dressing and acting in a ‘tart’ like manner, but really she is just making use of her body to gain the attention of the workers. In the 1930’s women are stereotyped to be perfect housewives. They should be cooking and cleaning. She was not expected to be walking around talking to the men. Having any close relationship with a male that isn’t a family member or your husband is though of as disobedient and she is not dedicated to her husband. Curley’s wife flirts with the other men on the ranch, however, they do not take any notice of it and they don’t really like her.
Candy firstly describes her as a tart, which shows that he does not like her dressing up and he thinks it is unnecessary. As well as this, George describes her as a ‘tramp’ when he first meets her. He also calls her a ‘bitch’ and he doesn’t like it when she flirts with Lennie. George is angry when Lennie stares at her legs which show that not many people like when she first meets them. “She said playfully. ” “She smiled archly and twitched her body, nobody can’t blame a person for lookin. ” Both of these actions are very flirtatious.
Curley’s wife may do this because she is upset and lonely. Her husband doesn’t really pay much attention to her therefore she does whatever she wants to. She is given no freedom and the only thing to do on the ranch is to talk to the men. Consequently she is upset and wants to annoy Curley. “I seen him go in your house. She was suddenly apprehensive. ” “She hurried away. ” Curley’s wife knows what she is doing but she doesn’t care because she wants to cause trouble and have some excitement in her life. Curley’s wife had a dream that one day she would be in the movies and be famous.
She had a friend that was in the pictures and that had offered her a job. :”Coulda been in the movies, an’ had nice clothes – all them nice clothes like they wear. An’ I coulda sat in them big hotels, an’ had pitchers took of me. When they had them previews I coulda went to them, an’ spoke in the radio, an’ it wouldn’ta cost me a cent because I was in the pitcher. An’ all them nice clothes like they wear. Because this guy says I was a natural. ” She said that her fried would write to her when she was back In Hollywood. “I never got that letter”. “So I married Curley”.
The Essay on Of Mice and Men: My Impression of Curley’s Wife
Curley’s wife is just a young woman seeking attention, feeling the only way she can receive it is if she throws herself at the men around the ranch. In all honesty, Curley should give her more attention than she could ever wish for, however, in the 1930s things were a lot different to how they are now for women. Curley’s wife gives off the impression that she is a floozy and an extremely ...
This makes you feel sorry for her because she could have done so much more with her life. :“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”. She could not do anything else but marry Curley who doesn’t let her do what she wants and makes her stay on the ranch. “I don’t like Curley”. She admits to Lennie. Therefore she has nobody to talk to because the other men don’t like her and she doesn’t get on with her husband. Curley doesn’t let her out so she has no friends. Think I don’t like to talk to somebody over’ once in a while? ” She doesn’t get to go outside of the ranch very often. “Think I like to stick in that house alla time? ” Curley goes out and goes to a cathouse and she knows that which must make her very upset. Curley’s wife can come across as mean sometimes especially when she talks to Crooks and Lennie in Crook’s room. “They left all the weak ones here” “A nigger an’ a dum-dum and a lousy ol’ sheep. ” However, this could be because she doesn’t know what is right and what is wrong because Curley treats her the same way.
This makes me feel sorry for her because her husband and even the people on the ranch think that she’s stupid. They all call her names. Curley’s wife, like Lennie, has no ability to self-evaluate. Unlike Lennie, she doesn’t have the excuse of being mentally slow. Because Curley’s wife’s entire personality is one based on prostitution and ignorance. Although she is a character in a fiction book, there are many women out in the real world with this same kind of behavior. She seeks out Lennie for friendship, but due to his strength she dies.
Therefore the book shows us that people who have a low position in society lead a lonely and short life. John Steinbeck was trying to show us in detail the problems are society faces, and every character in the novel represents a problem people face. Like Crooks, who is a victim of racism, she is isolated. Even the fact she has no name but ‘Curley’s wife’ suggests she is more of an item and owned by Curley rather than a respectable person. She is a person of lust and greed, an obstacle all the good men in the book have to overcome. In conclusion, I think that Curley’s wife is not Miss Dynamite but a lonely victim.
The Essay on The relationship between Curley and his wife
All the female characters used by Steinbeck are either, prostitutes, a carer or a victim. Their marriage is bizarre because they have only been married for 2 weeks and they don’t like each other. We can tell this because they are never together in the book also she flirts with other men because she is lonely all of the time and Curley goes to the cat house. Curley wears gloves full of Vaseline on ...
She has no friends or anybody to talk to so she cannot often take her anger out on her friends. She is just trying to be nice to the other men but she is not going about it the right was which just makes Curley angry and abusive. In general she is just a normal girl trying to find the right path to take and she has taken the wrong one because she could not do anything else. Sometimes she looses her temper, which may be unnecessary, but after all she has nobody to help her. Boredom and anger has taken over and made her upset. Loneliness has driven her to what she is which is not her fault.
