I think Steinbeck presents Curley’s wife as a woman who loves attention off any man and because of how she gets ignored from most of them and Curley, it makes her want more attention from them.
Steinbeck tells the reader a lot about Curley’s wife by her appearance. ‘Her fingernails were red.’ and ‘She had full, rouged lips’ this tells the reader a lot about her by how Steinbeck has used the colour red for her lips and nails because red is a colour that represents love, seduction, danger and passion. This automatically tells the reader that Curley’s wife is a woman that is a little adventurous with men. How he mentions that she is very heavily made up and describes in detail what she is wearing shows that she has a lot of time to do her self up because she has nothing to do in the day time. When you read on in the story it tells you that she is clearly dolling her self up a lot for the men on the ranch as well as Curley. Her whole appearance shows that she is a woman that cares what she looks likes and obviously wants to impress. At the start of the paragraph it reads how the sunlight was cut off when she came towards the door and this gives the reader a picture in their head of something bad and mysterious is coming along that’s cut off the sunlight. Steinbeck presents her altogether through her appearance as a flirt that lives off the attention off all the men on the ranch.
Curley’s wife’s actions tell the reader a lot about her, ‘She put her hands behind her back and leaned against the door frame so that her body was thrown forward.’ Steinbeck is showing that she is confident about herself and is not afraid to flaunt herself to other men. The way he described her throwing her body forward says she is trying to flirt with the men on the ranch using body language by pushing her chest out. ‘She looked at her fingernails.’ This is like she is looking at her finger nails so it looks like she has something better to do than talk to them, but in actual fact she wants to talk to them but she don’t want to look to forward and desperate to talk to them, she is trying to make it look that she is a little bored of the conversation with them. I think Steinbeck is showing that she is flirting with the men but being clever with it by making it look like she has better things to do. Curley’s wife is shown to be unimportant in the novel as she is always told when she starts a conversation with the men on the ranch, non of them have the time of day for her and they don’t want to talk to her. She is also referred to all the way through the play as ’Curley’s wife’, this tells the reader that she is not important as she is not even given a name throughout the play.
The Essay on Of MIce and Men: Curley’s Wife
Names have been an important facet of society for as long as Homo sapiens have existed. A name is defined as “a word or symbol used in logic to designate an entity. ” In Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck teaches a lesson about the nature of human existence and shows how grim and isolated people become without hope. Steinbeck neglects to address Curley’s wife’s character by name in order to emphasize ...
A lot of things that Curley’s wife says shows how Steinbeck has presented her as a flirtatious woman. ‘you’re the new fellas that just come, ain’t ya?’ how she throws her body against the wall, sticks her chest out and says this shows that she is flirty because she I trying to start a conversation with the men by asking them if they are the new fellas, she is trying to get to know them and is properly expecting them to turn around and introduce themselves to her but they don’t they try to keep the conversation blank and just answer what she wants to know. When she says ‘Nobody can’t blame a person for lookin’,’ she is flirting by saying two things at once, she is making the men think is she talking about looking for Curley or is she talking about looking at the men and saying they can’t blame her for looking. She is giving the men mixed messages.
