Dislike her:
We should dislike CW because she is horrible to other people, especially those who are weaker than her. “what am I doing standing her with a dumb-dumb, a nigger…” For example, she says to Crooks “you know what I can do to you if you open your trap.” which shows her using her power against him as she has the power to get him hung.. When she tells him to get back into his place she is reminding him of how low he is because he is black. He is less important than a white woman.
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Curley’s Wife – do you dislike her or feel sorry for her?
We should dislike CW because she is a bad influence on people : “I never seen such a bad piece of jailbait as her.” This is shown when she stands provocatively against the door and Lennie stares at her despite being told by George not to talk to her. And she goes to
Lennie to stroke her hair and starts shouting at him to stop which panics him and he kills her. This gets Lennie into lots of trouble – and she caused it.
Plus, everyone else in the books portrays her as a bad person before we meet her: “I think Curley’s married a tart.” so they must be right, especially because her appearance and behaviour backs up what they think as soon as we meet her: “she put her hands behind her back and leaned against the door frame so that her body was
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Curley’s Wife – do you dislike her or feel sorry for her?
We also dislike her because she dresses inappropriately for everyday life on a ranch: “cotton house dress, red mules, heavily made up, her fingernails were red.” Its like she is trying to use her appearance as a weapon to hurt Curley because he’s horrible to her; she tries to make him jealous by dressing attractively. If she was committed to
Curley and her marriage she would dress like a housewife and cover up. She also flirts with all the men: ” its like she can’t stay away from them” and “gives them the eye”. This causes us to