How does Steinbeck explore different attitude towards women in the novel Of Mice and Men? John Steinbeck provides a variety of different attitudes towards women in the novel ‘Of Mice and Men.’ I will explore these attitudes in order to represent the portrayal of women in the book; in which there are many different women with different attitudes respectively. Steinbeck uses the portrayal of Curley’s wife‚ who is the main female protagonist to show how women were treated during the 1930’s ‘Depression
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Steinbeck creates mood and atmosphere here. (b) For which character in Of Mice and Men do you have the most sympathy? Show how John Steinbeck’s presentation of your chosen character creates sympathy for him or her. (c) How is the relationship between Curley and his wife important to the novel as a whole? 2010 (a) Extract : Ch.5 ‘Curley’s wife came around the end of the last stall…’ Look closely at how Curley’s wife speaks and behaves here. How does it affect your feelings towards her ? (b) How
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parents wanted me to go to Perry Hall High School. They thought it would be more beneficial to me. However‚ I thought otherwise. I wanted to attend Curley because I thought it would be more challenging‚ I knew people‚ and I liked the environment. The environment motivated me to do well because of all the different resources. My main focus was soccer though‚ Curley had an excellent soccer reputation and I wanted to be a part of that. They had won the championship they season prior to me attending. All summer
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The Judges inquiry- George Notes on George’s character: George loved Lennie and Promised Aunt Clara that he would look after him. Lennie had previously got in trouble. Curley would have got Lennie lynch anyway and he would have done it in a gruesome manner and inflicted pain on him. George wouldn’t have been able to stand there and just watch‚ he took the decision to kill Lennie himself‚ this not being an easy task itself. What he thinks what has happened is that he has underestimated Lennies
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justified in killing Lennie‚ and he is a man for others due to the choices he makes. For example‚ Curley instigates a fight between himself and Lennie‚ demanding respect‚ and power when he says‚ “Come on‚ ya big bastard. Get up on your feet. No big son-of-a-bitch is gonna laugh at me. I’ll show ya who’s yella” (62). This quotation helps shed some light onto the extent of punishment and violence that Curley has‚ the same violence he ensures onto Lennie‚ by forming a lynch mob and hunting him like a dear
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"Of Mice and Men" is based on the major themes of hard reality‚ dreams‚ companionship and tragedy; particularly relevant to 1930’s America‚ following the depression and economic poverty it caused. Steinbeck portrays George as a flawed character who doesn’t display archetypal heroic qualities‚ however the reader empathizes with him. Steinbeck therefore ultimately presents him as a anti-hero within the context of the narrative. At the beginning of the novel‚ Steinbeck portrays George as a flawed
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English Homework Goodies VS Baddies Lennie - A large‚ lumbering‚ childlike migrant worker. Due to his mild mental disability‚ Lennie completely depends upon George‚ his friend and travelling companion‚ for guidance and protection. The two men share a vision of a farm that they will own together‚ a vision that Lennie believes in wholeheartedly. In the Of Mice and Men novella Lennie is a good and ever so gentle and kind person. He does not mean any harm to anybody however his strength surpasses
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by saying‚ “She had full rouged lips” and that she was “heavily made up” and wearing “a cotton house dress with little red mules‚ on the insteps which were little bouquets of red ostrich feathers”. It becomes clear that she wasn’t just looking for Curley so she told George and Lennie‚ but attention from the many men who worked on the ranch. The fact that she was made up also implies that she has a lot of time on her hands and is somewhat bored. Steinbeck portrays her in this part of the novel as a
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By Golda Bhebhe. “Of Mice and Men.” In the novel “Of Mice and Men” by John Steinbeck we are introduced to two main characters‚ George Milton and Lennie Small. These men are close friends who travel together looking for employment in America in the 1930s. Lennie is quite a simple guy who sometimes gets into trouble. Steinbeck uses a range of writing techniques to portray Lennie and we are left at the end feeling very sad that he has had to die. When we first meet Lennie and George we immediately
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becomes clear that the two are close friends and George is Lennie’s protector. The theme of friendship is constant throughout the story. At the ranch‚ the situation appears to be menacing and dangerous‚ especially when the pair are confronted by Curley—the boss’s small-statured aggressive son with an inferiority complex who dislikes larger men—leaving the gentle giant Lennie potentially vulnerable.
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