She's the only female character in the novel, and she's never given a name and is only referred to in reference to her husband. The men on the farm refer to her as a “tramp,” a “tart,” and a “looloo.” Dressed in fancy, feathered red shoes, she represents the temptation of female sexuality in a male-dominated world. She is a simple object or possession belonging to her husband and this shows the severity of the sexual discrimination in America in 1930s. I believe Steinbeck would have thought of her not as a person but a symbol. Almost everyone on the ranch is lonely and she symbolizes this.
In this passage, we see the methods that Steinbeck uses to present the character of Candy. One of Steinbeck’s most used methods is repetition, for example, when Candy says : “I seen her give Slim the eye” twice to George. Steinbeck is showing here how Candy is a gossiper and how he finds entertainment in unfounded rumours. Furthermore, it could also indicate a crueller side to Candy, if he had one. He is talking about Curley’s wife with the clear intention of discrediting her to George.
Curley’s wife Tart Curley's Wife, in John Steinbeck's novel Of Mice and Men, is an example of how the reader's perception of a character can change without the character actually changing. We first hear about Curley's Wife when Candy describes her to George and Lennie. Candy uses expressions such as "she got the eye" and goes on to describe her as looking at other men before eventually calling her a "tart." Through Candy's words, we develop an initial perception of Curley's Wife as flirtatious and even immoral. Tart light/dark This perception is further emphasized by Curley's Wife's first appearance in the novel.
Curleys wife, In John Steinbeck’s novel ‘Of Mice and Men, is an example of how the readers perception of a character can change without the character actually changing. Curleys wife is first introduced when Candy describes her to George. Candy says things such as “she got the eye” and goes on to describe her as a woman who likes to look at other men and then finally calls her a “tart”. Through Candy’s words we develop an initial perception of Curley’s wife as flirtatious and promiscuous. This perception is further emphasized by Curley’s Wife’s first appearance in the novel.
Harold posits, “You should pay for the exterminators, because Mirugai is your cat and so they’re your fleas. It’s only fair” (150). Although Harold gave Lena Mirugai as a gift and doesn’t help pay for Mirugai’s needs, it appears that Harold does not show his love to Lena. In appearance their marriage is great but in reality, they fight over the smallest issues. Once the table breaks, that Harold made, Lena realizes how their marriage does not have any balance.
Goblin market has been interpreted by many, it has been described as being a sexual poem about sexual desires, and however others have said the poem is a moral allegory of temptation without any religious ideology. The poem begins with what can be interpreted as the opening times of the goblin market; it then goes to mention maids who can hear the goblin’s cry. Who are these maids? And why can they only hear the calling of the goblin men? It can be interpreted as the maids being unmarried and married women who the goblin men are trying to lure to the goblin market.
This enforces the idea that unlike Lennie, she is a complex character in the novel. Steinbeck mentioned that Curley’s wife’s voice had a “nasal, brittle quality” which is a clear sign of her flirtatious behaviour. Although her intentions were flirty, the fact that it was described as ‘nasal’ by the author made it obvious that it was unpleasant to the ears. The reaction from George made it clear to the reader that she was an attractive woman, however he was being apprehensive as he “looked away from her and then back”. This contrasts with Lennies reaction as his “eyes moved down over her body” blatantly checking her out.
This further suggests her need to overcompensate in her image as an attempt to impress the ranch workers and her husband. The reader may infer that Curley’s wife succeeds in her attempt for their attention when slim addresses her as “good-lookin” in a friendly manner, however we notice George stays constantly wary of her and treats her with a similarly brusque air “well he aint now.” Steinbeck uses this short and abrupt sentence to perhaps highlight George’s intolerance of her, and her dangerously flirty personality. Steinbeck prefigures the death of Curley’s wife, later in the novel, also through his physical description of her. This is shown through use of the colour red in her; “rouged lips”; “little bouquets of red ostrich feathers” and “red mules” perhaps meaning her association with the colour red holds connotations of danger and death. Her death is also prefigured in the very first introduction of her entering the bunkhouse “the rectangle of sunshine in the doorway was cut off” Steinbeck presents the sunshine as being part of Curley’s wife’s’ ‘dream’ and perhaps being used as a metaphor for the freedom and happiness she longs for, however when the light is “cut
Women were looked upon as inferior; and incapable of the skills men were, so a woman’s role was mainly housework and nothing with manual requirement. From the first short encounter we share with Curley’s wife we see just one, prominent side to her. From this first meeting, a lot can be foreshadowed. Steinbeck focuses our first introduction with her on her appearance; emphasizing her sexual appeal and desirability towards men. ‘She had full rouged lips and wide spaced eyes, heavily made up,’ which suggests that the author wanted us to presume the worst of her before she’d even spoken and we set ourselves up for her to be a character we feel a lot of resentment for.
Descriptive Analysis of Language in a Male Dominated Society The exigence I decided to use was the further impending issue on feminism and how women should be treated and understood as equals like men. Since the beginning of time, men have been at the forefront, while women stayed in the background. Since the beginning of time, men have always controlled major businesses, while women looked helplessly on the sidelines. It’s important to note that I utilized commonplace to develop between the set of beliefs that were developed between the men and my aunt. My aunt was forced to see like so many women in today’s society that men want to run the show and control as much conversation as they can.