Of Mice And Men Women Analysis
The woman lived on a ranch with her husband Curley. Always looking for him around and talking to the workers; becoming friends with them, It would seem as if the woman is happy, but she isn’t; being surrounded by loneliness and rudeness. John Steinbeck’s novel Of Mice and Men takes place in California in the 1930’s where two men travel from ranch to ranch for work and meeting new people along the way. Although the woman is married and has a stable home, she receives mental abuse and discrimination as shown by her husband, her peers and her words. One way the woman receives mental abuse and discrimination is from her husband. Her husband keeps her from having a normal conversation with any other person on the farm. She tries to talk to Lennie,
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The woman’s behavior while her first time meeting George and Lennie gave George a bad first impression. Lennie saying that the woman was “purty” lead George to say “...I never seen no piece of jailbait worst than her” (32). George may have just met the woman, but the woman pushing herself at both George and Lennie gave an immensely bad impression. George isn’t the only one on the ranch that thinks that the woman is “jailbait”. They think so because she is always pushing herself at the men. Her body language, the way she speaks and how she always tries to talk to all the men. All she wants is some attention since she doesn’t get any from her husband or anyone on the ranch. George was just looking out for Lennie and himself, considering what happened on their previous ranch in Weed. George saying that the woman is “jailbait” after the first time they met shows how the woman receives discrimination very quickly. The woman always being talked down on. Although George talks down on her to Lennie, it is only to look out for Lennie so that he doesn’t get into any trouble. Jailbait is a term that people use when they are looking down on a female or just looking out for another. In society today, people are always being called names; verbally in real life, online, to people’s faces and behind people’s back. Another way the woman receives mental abuse and discrimination is shown when Lennie and
The woman’s behavior while her first time meeting George and Lennie gave George a bad first impression. Lennie saying that the woman was “purty” lead George to say “...I never seen no piece of jailbait worst than her” (32). George may have just met the woman, but the woman pushing herself at both George and Lennie gave an immensely bad impression. George isn’t the only one on the ranch that thinks that the woman is “jailbait”. They think so because she is always pushing herself at the men. Her body language, the way she speaks and how she always tries to talk to all the men. All she wants is some attention since she doesn’t get any from her husband or anyone on the ranch. George was just looking out for Lennie and himself, considering what happened on their previous ranch in Weed. George saying that the woman is “jailbait” after the first time they met shows how the woman receives discrimination very quickly. The woman always being talked down on. Although George talks down on her to Lennie, it is only to look out for Lennie so that he doesn’t get into any trouble. Jailbait is a term that people use when they are looking down on a female or just looking out for another. In society today, people are always being called names; verbally in real life, online, to people’s faces and behind people’s back. Another way the woman receives mental abuse and discrimination is shown when Lennie and