The townspeople carried a sort of sympathy once her family passed, with her only reaming kin living in south Alabama. Miss Emily was known for her big seventies style abode that was once white and filled with life, but soon became to be a mysterious place. Her neegro “manservant” being the only one to go in or out for years. Miss Emily was artist. She had given china painting lessons to a few children in the town, but they grew older and once the last had come she didn’t take many visitors.
Poor Curley’s wife! Curley’s wife is a victim. She is a victim because she suffered through a lot when she was young or before she was married and also after her marriage.In this scene Curleys wife was flirting with lennie and she said “I get Lonely. You can talk to people but I can’t talk to nobody but Curley. Else he gets mad.
Another character is Curley's wife who is very lonely. Steinbeck shows lonliness by showing her only women on the ranch. She is lonely because at that time author is writing ,women were used to stay at home and not allowed to go out. She always flirts with the male workers of the ranch to seek attention.She always try to talk to somebody but no one is ready to talk to her. For evidence she said to Lennie,"I never get to talk to nobody.
Curley’s wife is always looking for someone just to talk to because she doesn’t have anything better to do. Curley’s wife was lonely because she had no one to talk to and she was bored on the ranch. In addition
Like the ranch-hands, she is desperately lonely and has broken dreams of a better life. Curley’s wife: Of Mice and Menis not kind in its portrayal of women. In fact, women are treated with contempt throughout the course of the book. Steinbeck generally depicts women as troublemakers who bring ruin on men and drive them mad. Curley’s wife, who walks the ranch as a temptress, seems to be a prime example of this destructive tendency—Curley’s already bad temper has only worsened since their wedding.
She uses several methods of development. Brady is very descriptive in defining "wife" in her essay. Week 2 Discussion Posting 2 Read Deborah Tannen's essay "Sex, Lies, and Conversation" on page 164 of Discovering a Voice. Who is Tannen's intended audience? Women?
How does Steinbeck use details to reveal the character of Curely’s Wife in this passage? Steinbeck presents Curley’s Wife in this passage through a variety of themes. In this passage we see Curley’s Wife finally being able to express her story and have the freedom to talk to someone on the ranch. Firstly Steinbeck presents Curley’s Wife through the theme of loneliness. We can see this demonstrated when Steinbeck says “She went on with her story quickly before she could be interrupted.” This quote portrays her desire to finally let out her story and to be listened to.
“Ain’t I got a right to talk to nobody?” Curley’s wife is a method and a character that Steinbeck uses to sum up the life of an average 1930s, American woman, who suffers from sexism and loneliness. Curley’s wife feels that because she is a woman, she isn’t allowed to go near the workers on the ranch and she often complains, as shown in the quote, that she feels that she should be allowed to talk to the workers. This prejudice makes Curley’s wife isolated from everyone else on the ranch, and because she is the only female on the ranch, she doesn’t have anyone else that she can talk to and relate to. Steinbeck uses the complaints by Curley’s Wife to show that she is being affected by loneliness and isolation. Another character that Steinbeck
This shows us that no matter how hard they hoped and worked for their dream, it would eventually collapse, just like Wall Street. Every character I am going to comment on has or had a dream, in reality, they will never achieve. I will begin with Curley’s wife because, even though, she isn’t a migrant worker, she is still a prime example of loneliness and disappointment during the great depression. Throughout the novella, we become aware of just how lonely Curley’s Wife is, due to her hanging around the other men and craving their attention. She dresses in red high heels and wears red lipstick in order to attract the other men and gain their attention.
The narrator states the mother’s resentment of Connie’s beauty because “her looks were gone and that was why she was always after Connie.”[451]. Connie doesn’t make the situation between the two any better by instigating her mother with curt answers and rude responses. “Her parents and her sister were going to a barbecue at an aunt’s house and Connie said ‘no’, she wasn’t interested, rolling her eyes to let her mother know exactly what she thought.”[453]. the only time Connie fully admits that she truly did love her mother was when she was crying in the phone for her. Connie’s father is a quiet bystander when it came to his wife and daughter heated arguments.