Curley's Wife Character Analysis

Characters have character. In all stories, we are introduced with a character in a story, human or not, that we can somewhat invision. The way they speak, the way the act, that way they look and the way others are influenced by them. As we grow to love or hate that character, they grow too; they start changing their past ways or traits to something different. You start to see more of the character that wasn’t there before when they gave their first impression to you. You realize that there is an exceeding amount about your character that is not visible on just the surface. You have to dig deeper with them to find out who they really are. In the book Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, Curley’s wife changes right before our eyes throughout the
When Lennie and George first encounter the infamous wife of Curley, traits are clearly shown just from the way she looks and acts. Curley’s wife is established as overly flirty and hungry for attention from the boys. The description of her in the book states, “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.” Right off the bat,
In her last moments, she reveals to us that she isn’t a try-hard slut but an innocent and pure dreamer that was robbed of opportunities for a better life. You start to feel bad for her when she is explaining the dream that she has had; “‘Coulda been in the movies, an’ had nice clothes...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.’” It may seem like she is just like any other girl that has a dream of being in movies, but to her, it was another chance at freedom from herself. To her, the most important part of the dream was knowing that people noticed her and she could be herself without insecurities. This presumes that she didn’t choose a life of being trouble, but it was the only thing that she could do without feeling like she was all alone. On top of that when she reveals one of her biggest secrets to Lennie, but it wasn’t easy. She said to him timidly, “‘Well, I ain’t told this to nobody before. Maybe I ought’n to. I don’t like Curley. He ain’t a nice fella.’” This issues that Curley isn’t good to her. The fact that she didn’t tell anyone about how she feels proves that it is so hard for her to trust someone and that she probably only married him for people to be happy, but not for herself. She really wanted a nice person to go together with her kindness that wasn’t able to come