Curleys Wife Analysis
Curly’s Wife
Curlys Wife is a very powerful and yet powerless character within the novel Of Mice and Men as Steinbeck uses her to reflect the prejudice against women in the 1930s since they had very little rights. Just from her title “Curlys Wife” she has no actual name, this shows that she is just Curlys property and powerless in the sense that she hasn’t got her own individual identity, only an identity through her husband, also she doesn’t have enough power to be called a ‘woman’ instead she is discriminated against and is called derogatory terms such as a “tart” when Slim first speaks of her to George by saying “I think Curly married a tart” showing no respect for her
From the beginning of when she is introduced in the novel she is portrayed to be unfaithful, mean and tempting we know this as George describes her as “jailbait” when warning Lennie to stay away from her. Curlys wife knows her beauty is to her advantage “she put her hands behind her back and leaned against the door frame so that her body was thrown forward” Any chance she gets she’ll flirt with the other ranch workers to make her cold aggressive husband jealous as he does not sexually satisfy her. She is known to the reader for wearing a lot of red "Her fingernails were red" and "She had full, rouged lips” the colour red can symbolise danger and the fact that she is introduced wearing this colour shows that she could be the cause of George and Lennies failure to get their American dream
"Lennies eyes look up and down her body fascinated by her attractive appearance.” She enjoys a little bit of Lennies admiraition yet at this point George knows he has to intervene and responds quickly before it’s too late by making it known to her that him and Lennie aren’t interested in her, which she replies with "you can’t blame a person for looking" as if to appeal to Georges intervention, this shows how she 'll take any little attention that she can get regardless of who it is from. Lennie says she is
Curlys Wife is a very powerful and yet powerless character within the novel Of Mice and Men as Steinbeck uses her to reflect the prejudice against women in the 1930s since they had very little rights. Just from her title “Curlys Wife” she has no actual name, this shows that she is just Curlys property and powerless in the sense that she hasn’t got her own individual identity, only an identity through her husband, also she doesn’t have enough power to be called a ‘woman’ instead she is discriminated against and is called derogatory terms such as a “tart” when Slim first speaks of her to George by saying “I think Curly married a tart” showing no respect for her
From the beginning of when she is introduced in the novel she is portrayed to be unfaithful, mean and tempting we know this as George describes her as “jailbait” when warning Lennie to stay away from her. Curlys wife knows her beauty is to her advantage “she put her hands behind her back and leaned against the door frame so that her body was thrown forward” Any chance she gets she’ll flirt with the other ranch workers to make her cold aggressive husband jealous as he does not sexually satisfy her. She is known to the reader for wearing a lot of red "Her fingernails were red" and "She had full, rouged lips” the colour red can symbolise danger and the fact that she is introduced wearing this colour shows that she could be the cause of George and Lennies failure to get their American dream
"Lennies eyes look up and down her body fascinated by her attractive appearance.” She enjoys a little bit of Lennies admiraition yet at this point George knows he has to intervene and responds quickly before it’s too late by making it known to her that him and Lennie aren’t interested in her, which she replies with "you can’t blame a person for looking" as if to appeal to Georges intervention, this shows how she 'll take any little attention that she can get regardless of who it is from. Lennie says she is