How Steinbeck presents Curley’s wife in this passage above? Intro: In of mice and men, Curleys Wife is presented in many numerous ways. Steinbeck depicts Curley’s wife not as a villain, but rather as a victim. Like the ranch-hands, she is desperately lonely and has broken dreams of a better life. 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.
“You seen a girl around here?”(37). Being the only girl on the ranch she gets mistreated by many of the men, including Curley. If she is ever doing anything wrong, Curley gets really mad and yells at her. Curley’s wife is always complaining about how much she does not like him. “Well I ain’t told this to nobody before, maybe I ought to.
I assume that she wants a divorce from her husband but because of the role that society has placed on her, but she is unable to get one because she is very dependent on him. It sounds to me that she is jealous of her male friend who is looking for another wife. It was him and his situation that she was thinking of that brought her to the conclusion that she herself wants a wife. Her situation leads me to believe that during this time in history women were not meant to show signs of aggression, jealousy, or anger because it was a mans world. In Brady’s eyes a wife is a basically a slave at home who cannot have a life of her own.
When getting married him, she didn’t live for herself; she lived completely for her husband. Her freedom was lost. She was not respected by her husband because she stayed at home as a typical Victorian woman. Her social life was completely not respected. Everything she was supposed to do is to take care of her husband and her family to accomplish the role of a woman at that time as a full time house wife.
The last character John Steinbeck has developed, Curley's wife, shows loneliness for three reasons. For one, she states, "I get lonely. You can talk to people, but I can't talk to nobody but Curley" on page 87, which shows that she has loneliness because she doesn't have anyone to talk to but Curley. Specifically, people won't talk to her because they know that Curley will get jealous and want to start a fight. In another reason, she says, "I'm looking for Curley" on page 31, which shows that she, made up an excuse to talk to somebody.
Bonnie Smith Yackel's mother is deemed to be an unemployed person according to the government. However, not everyone in the social security office uses correct terminology. The person answering her in the SS office was rude enough to plainly state how her mother, Martha Smith never has worked. If I was the daughter I would be extremely offended at the statement that person just made. And she was and she goes on to explain her mother's life to the reader so she can prove this person wrong and justify her mother's long hardworking career on the farm.
She was completely isolated. Never wanted, never loved. Curley treats her as if she were an object, and Steinbeck puts more ‘loneliness’ to her by not giving her a name because she’s merely a property belonging to Curley. In Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, Curley’s wife is a character who is alone and misunderstood. Her life on a ranch in the 1930s, during the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl is even worse because she is the only woman.
Curley’s wife Part (a) What methods does Steinbeck use to present Curley’s wife and the attitudes of others to her? Steinbeck uses Curley’s wife and the physical description of her to portray how lonely she is on the ranch and how this need for company is considered an annoyance by the ranch workers. Steinbeck’s description of Curley’s wife itself suggests she has a lot of spare time on the ranch and spends most of it alone working on her looks. Her “heavily made up” features and “hair hung in little rolled clusters” imply she is perhaps insecure of her looks. This further suggests her need to overcompensate in her image as an attempt to impress the ranch workers and her husband.
Even though she is merry she experiences loneliness by her husband Curley. Curleys wife is married to curly son of the boss. She is forbidden by curley to talk to anyone but him. As a result the other man in the ranch regards her as a “slut”. Curleys wife is nameless throughout the whole novel.
Curley’s Wife’s loneliness is caused by her husband. Curley’s Wife is lonely because she did not follow her dream, Curley treats her as a possession, and the guys on the ranch avoid her because she is Curley’s Wife. “Coulda been in the movies, an’