Everyone on the ranch called Curleys Wife a ''tart'' because she flirts and the ranch men said ''Shes got the eyes''. Nobody on the ranch understood Curley's Wife and seen that Curley made her life very unpleasant, the only reason Curley's Wife flirted with other men was because Curley made her feel so isolated and alone. She had no friends or anyone to talk to on the ranch and Curley treated her as more of a possesion than his
Her family is livings life where they cannot control what could happen to them because they don’t have money to fix these problems nor do they have the power to stop them. “The strife has lasted too young and had been too painful for me to call him back to continue it.” (pg. 100) This quote is fulfilled with grief and sorrow because Nathan and Rukmani’s last child, Kuti dies. At this point in the story, death is being caused because they don’t have enough money to support their children or feed them. Markandaya is showing fear by Rukmani not being able to support her children therefore they will die off if nothing is done.
The title "Of Mice and Men". Firstly Steinbeck portrays Curley's wife as a lonely character. Newly married and in a strange place, she is forbidden by Curley to talk to anyone but him. To counter this, she constantly approaches the ranch hands on the excuse of looking for Curley. The only result is that the men regard her as a "slut", and Curley becomes even more intensely jealous.
After her awakening after the swim, Edna began to neglect her motherly and wifely duties more so than before. Before the awakening, Edna did not attend to her children the way a nurturing mother would. Her husband noticed that she was not as tentative to the children as she should have been, “he reproached his wife with her inattention, her habitual neglect of the children”, (p. 7 paragraph 4). After her husband left for his trip, Edna allowed the children’s grandmother to take them in. She became rebellious towards her husband and she no longer submitted to his commands.
But her mother forbids her from this. Therefore, she married Curley, after only knowing him for two weeks. She admits that she doesn’t even like Curley, that she only married him to escape her mother. I think Steinbeck chose to name this character ‘Curley’s Wife’ because it shows how unimportant she is, how she will never reach her dream and make something of herself. It also shows how she is Curley’s property and
These characters are isolated due to the gender, age or colour, are isolated from society or others on the ranch. Candy and Crooks are two secondary characters who are depicted as being isolated. Candy is isolated due to his age and disability whereas Crooks is isolated because he is a black man. Candy’s disability isolates him from the other men. ‘He pointed with his right arm, and out of the sleeve came a round stick-like wrist, but no hand.’ His ‘stick-like wrist’ singles him out from the other workers on the ranch who are all heaving bags of barley all day: “bucking barley”.
In fact he becomes so angry that he tells Ophelia that he never loved her and that instead of marrying she should go to a nunnery rather then pass on her genes to children. At this point in the story, Hamlet makes it seem as if he is not interested in women anymore. For the readers perspective at this point in the story they are clue less as to the true feelings of Hamlet. Hamlet also does not have very much respect for his mother anymore. This may be why he has such a difficult time getting along with women.
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.
True to George’s original estimation, he will go through his life alone. Another character who suffers from loneliness is Curley’s wife. It is her sexuality that causes her loneliness. All the men on the ranch try to avoid her because they believe that women are always the cause of trouble. She longs to have someone to talk to, yet she gets restricted by her brutish husband.
Therefore, she plays the mistress-role, which causes her not to trust men. With Clemencia being unsure about love, she also seems to be unsure about her love for her father. In the beginning, her mother told her to never marry a Mexican, because of her father which makes her