She is a lonely character constantly searching for attention, even if it is from ranch workers, cripples and the coloured. Curley's wife is made to show her disgust at married life by being 'married two weeks an' got the eye', this makes the ranch workers towards her bitter and unhappy as they see her as a tart who has no reason to be near them as she will only lead to trouble. Steinbeck uses Curley's wife's character along with others to show that many people of that time had dreams, hers was that she 'could be in the pitchers' we find out about her dream just before her death this heightens the impact of the news. She knows that she is no longer able to fulfil her own dream, as she is no longer her own person but Curley's, she turns her anger into the form of making Curley jealous by flirting with other men. Despite the fact that she wants to believe she had a chance in the pictures she knows she had no chance after the promised
Curley’s hand is crushed by Lennie’s uncontrolled strength. Curley has a new young wife who craves attention from the other ranch hands. It appears that she married Curley only to escape the monitory of living with her mother. In the 5th chapter Lennie who like to stroke “nice things”, but usually ends up killing them because of his physical strength and mental immaturity, is involved in a tragedy with Curley’s wife when he is alone in the barn with
Eva had no choice as she was pregnant and she couldn’t get a job so she killed herself in a dramatic way. Curley’s wife was also young but she had her mother, but she had to run away from her mother, because she knew her mother had hidden a letter from Hollywood. She got away and found Curley who she married to, and ended up living on a ranch with Curley as his wife. She is lonely there, and she tried to find someone she could talk to which led her to her death. Curley’s wife was young and lived with her mother before living with Curley on a ranch.
Paragraph 2- Curley's wife Talk about how she is always hanging around on the ranch, finding excuses to get out of the house. Contain references to the fact that she is the only woman on the ranch and that she is married to a man that she dislikes greatly. Refer to her being only just into her late teens. Mention how she, as well as crooks, opened up to Lennie because she was lonely. Also mention that she lied to herself and made herself believe that the man she met could really have put her in the pictures and that her mother had hidden the letters from Hollywood.
In the John Steinbeck’s novel “of Mice and Men” he introduces us to the character of Curley’s wife. She could be interpreted as a mis-fitting character in the novel as no one relates to her. Steinbeck relates her to how women were powerless during 1930’s and makes her seem desperately lonely and isolated from the others on the ranch. She has sexual power which she uses to get to the men on the ranch and she just needs someone to talk to. She dislikes her husband and had a desire to become a movie star.
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.
He insinuates that she gives all the guys ‘the eye’ and is a loose woman. It is not until later in the chapter when we actually meet Curley’s wife for the first time when she drops by at the bunkhouse, supposedly looking for her husband. George had just been telling Lennie where to hide if he gets into trouble when Curley’s wife suddenly appears at the doorway, her figure blocking out the sunlight. Steinbeck is warning the audience that this woman will cast a shadow over their future dreams. Next we are given a full physical description of Curley’s wife.
There are 3 key themes in this novel, this includes the American dream to go to California to start their own farm and to eat of “the fatta the lan” meaning that the farm that they dreamed of would give everything they needed to live and another key theme is the desire for human connection as Curley’s wife is treated with no respect with everyone ignoring her but the last and most important theme is loneliness, Curley’s wife is a representation of all of the three key themes. Curley’s wife was only married for about two weeks and in those days women were literally robbed of their identity when they get married and are just as if they are an object to their husbands, and since she has no name she is shaped trough the language as an inanimate object with no voice in anything she does and there is no mention of any other girl/women on the farm which shows her loneliness. When Curley’s wife goes to Crooks’ room (a black guy who sorts out the horses), it is clear she is feeling frustrated, agitated and aware of the bad marriage between her and Curley. From the beginning we see she remains isolated and removed from the men as she was only “looking in” to the room. “looking in” keeps being repeated throughout the novel to show that she is an outsider as she doesn’t fit in with the men on the farm, a girl with a house dress on a farm with a lot of men getting all dirty, it just doesn’t work.
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.
She reveals throughout the course of the story that she is unhappy in her marriage because her husband seems to care little for her, and is really more interested in talking about himself than anything else. Further, she laments her lost potential; she details twice that she could’ve been a Hollywood movie star, though the chance was taken from her by her mother, who worried she was too young. But Curley’s wife has another side that is petty,