Curley’s wife is introduced in section two she is introduced in a negative way, and we find out a lot of notable information about her, during the gossiping between Candy and George. She lives in an extremely patriarchal environment, and is treated like an object throughout the book, she is excluded from the ranch as women were treated like an object, she is excluded from the ranch as women were treated like this in the 1930’s America, and all women were seen as derogatory.
The expectation of women were to stay at home and raise a family, and obey there husbands, on the whole we see Curley’s wife deceit these obligations. We are never told Curley’s wife’s name because she is a possession of Curley’s, this reflects on her complete lack of individuality because she is owned by Curley and therefore doesn’t have her own identity. Many Americans had a big dream, the dreams were never succeeded. Throughout the novella we see that Curley’s wife doesn’t listen to Curley and is both a victim and a villain as she is judged but is still a young girl.
At the start of section two, we already know Candy’s full opinion on Curley’s wife, even though the readers haven’t seen her for the first time. Candy gives the readers an overview of his opinion of the relationship of Curley and his wife ‘Curley is even cockier’n ever since he got married’ giving us an impression that he doesn’t like her because Curley has got more attitude and because Curley can now show off that he has a wife, because he wants to make the ranchers jealous.
The Essay on How much sympathy does the reader feel towards Curleys wife?
Curley’s wife is a character in the novel “Of mice and men” set in California and written in 1937 by John Steinbeck. She is the only woman on a ranch of itinerant working men, and because of this she gets treated by each man in a different manner. Most of the men treat her in a negative way, therefore causing different degrees of sympathy from the reader. Sympathy implies that the reader feels an ...
This is also implying that she is the one to blame for this behaviour. The men on the ranch also imply that she’s not trustworthy, loyal and faithful ‘yeah? Married two weeks and got the eye’ they all know what she’s up to and what she is doing, and it makes the males aware of her, but it is also suggesting she is already flirty and communicating to all the workers and is trying to get them into trouble, she is always seen as a troublemaker from the start of the book.
She is also seen as a ‘tart’ and ‘bitch’ that threatens to destroy male happiness and lives later on in the novella ‘I could get you strung upon a tree so easy it ain’t even funny’ she becomes more powerful and emasculates the weaker men because of her authority and power, as she wants somebody to talk to but nobody will listen, because they know she is a ‘rat trap’. She s seen as a tart because of her appearance such as ‘full rouged lips’ and ‘heavily made up’ her beauty is powerful and she uses this to flirt with the ranch workers to make her husband jealous. She brings evil to the men’s lives by tempting them in a way they cannot resist. Red is the only colour described about her ‘finger nails were red’, ‘red mules’ and ‘red ostrich feathers’, this is intriguing because red is danger, and passion, and red is used to describe the girl in weed, showing that Lennie is involved, and the ending is similar to the girl in weed.
This is also influencing the readers attitude to be aware of her because she is dangerous and does it to get the attention off the workers, because she wants the attention because she is lonely, the readers also know that it is inappropriate to wear mules on a farm and ostrich feathers because she doesn’t need to look good for anybody because she is married, this is also suggesting that she is desperate and craves for attention.
We know she flirts and provokes all the men ‘her body was thrown forward’ this shows that she is proud of her body and sexuality; she throws her body forward so that the men are observant of her, because they normally don’t see women’s bodies. This also suggests she’s confident as she is the only girl on the ranch and a bit big headed because she knows that this will make the men resentful and conscious of her glamour because they only see prostitutes, we also know she has a lack of experience ‘girl’ suggesting she isn’t a women yet, the way that she throws her body forward is like a teenager teasing men.
The Term Paper on The Red Scarf Girl
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Steinbeck uses a lot of light and dark imagery from the beginning of the book ‘the rectangle of sunshine in the doorway was cut off’ demonstrating that she cuts off the American dream because the light is representing as the big dream and she cuts this off. In of mice and men we learn that as the emotions change so does the light and darkness throughout the book.
