Steinbeck presents her as a negative married woman. She has been presented first through the dialogue of ranch-hand Candy when he describes her to George. His opinion is very sexist towards Curley’s wife as he says “Curley married...a tart”. This shows Steinbeck presents her in a very crude manner. The word “tart” shows the immediate impression and effect Curley’s wife has on the other men on the ranch.
Examine Steinbeck’s portrayal of Curley’s Wife. How do our feelings towards her change throughout the novel? In this essay I will, examine and explore Steinbeck’s portrayal of Curley’s Wife in Of Mice and Men. I will also examine how our feelings towards her change throughout the novel. Steinbeck presents the character of Curley’s wife to be attractive, flirtatious and vulnerable and she is a very complex character.
Examine how Steinbeck presents the character of Curley's wife in, "Of Mice and Men" refer closely to the text in your answer to support your views. Submitted:Jun 22, 2013 Reads: 30,584 Comments: 2 Likes: 0 Curley's wife is a complex, main character in John Steinbeck's novella, "Of Mice and Men" She is introduced at the beginning and ultimately causes the end of the novella, her naivity and flirtatiousness leading to her inevitable death at the hand of Lennie, confused and scared by her forwardness and eventual unrest. She is first introduced by Candy, the swamper, who describes her from his perpsective to George and Lennie. The fact that Curley's wife is introduced through rumours means that the reader already has a biased opinion of Curley's wife before she even enters the section. Candy mentions that she, "got the eye" explaining that she is flirtatious and immoral in that wea re hit with the fact that she flirts with other men immediately after it is stated thatshe is married to Curley.
Another link is how she was “heavily made up”, and she had “full, rouged lips”. They was she acts around the other men on the ranch was disgusting for a married woman. She was constantly flirting with them, for example she said to Lennie “Nobody can’t blame a person for lookin’” implying that it’s okay for Lennie to look if he wants. She was also always running away from Curley at the same time. Curley’s wife would always try to show more of herself, and of course the reaction of the men was to call her a “tramp” and a “rat trap”.
Looking deeper into the novel with an historical perspective, it becomes clear that Chopin uses the identity crisis Edna Pontellier was having as a wife, mother, and woman to symbolize the expressed views of millions of women during the Women’s Right Movement of the 1800’s. In the late 1800’s, women of a Victorian Society was expected to marry according to their father’s religious beliefs. Women of this era are believed “not in capacity to judge for themselves”. The Victorian Society felt it was a woman’s place to [“abide by the decisions of their fathers…as confidently as by that of the church”] (Wollstonecraft, 1975, p.87). In “The Awakening”, Chopin challenges society’s expectations of marriage when Edna marries Leonce Pontellier in “violent opposition of her father” (Chopin, 1899, p.35), for Leonce was a catholic and Edna’s father was Presbyterian.
His own accounts with women dealt with sensitivity to the way his mother and sister were treated by his father. “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” has extreme undertones of emotional, sexual, and spiritual need that are apparent in his character “Maggie the Cat”. During the 1950s women were conditioned to find their worth in marriage and creating a sound family structure. The women in Williams’ play are portrayed as very dependent creatures with a variety of characteristics, each in their own very different but all three tied by the constraints of society. Women were to marry, and no matter how miserable they were treated, they were to please their husbands.
In John Steinbeck’s novella “Of nice and men”, John introduced us to a character called Curley’s wife, she plays a complex and misfit character in this novella as no one else in this novella relates to her. In this essay I will discuss her The first mention of Curley’s wife was when Candy describes her to George in the bunk house. Candy gives us a strong impression that Curley’s wife is flirtatious and even promiscuous female before we even meet her. As he says that “she’s get the eye” which means instead of being faithful to her husband. She tends to look for other male ranchers.
Curley’s Wife is first presented to us through the dialogue of ranch-hand Candy, when he describes her to George. She is perceived by Candy to be the cause of all that goes wrong in Soledad: ‘Ever’one knew you’d mess things up. You wasn’t no good’. This demonstrates that he 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 ‘tramp’ and even immoral.
Nicole Poirier English 102-004 Dr. Bruce Magee February 7, 2014 The Yellow Wallpaper: Oppression of Women in the Nineteenth Century The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is an American short story written at the end of the nineteenth century. This is a story of a woman who has been shut off from the rest of the world as a cure to her neurasthenia, a disease relatable to what is known as depression today. The Yellow Wallpaper was written as an attack on the ineffective cruel treatment of the “rest cure”, which the author had to suffer through herself. The parallels between Gillman’s experience and the narrator’s, as women of the nineteenth century, are evident in this story. Women’s reality, such as Gilman’s, in this time period was being a submissive wife with few rights in society.
The Conformity of Hester Prynne Melissa Cribb Baker College – Online October 25, 2011 In The Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne is marked as an adulteress by the Puritans for having an affair while her husband is nowhere to be found. As punishment, she is forced to wear a red letter ‘A’ on her bosom as indication of her moral weakness and to try to make her conform to their belief that women project frailty and sinful passion. Hester Prynne’s conformity is in the fact that she wears the letter and allows herself to be alienated but it is only on the surface as she uses it to create her own identity. This is proven in the care and protection of her daughter, her philosophy, her work with the town’s people and the fact that she becomes a maternal figure to the women of the community. At the beginning of Hester’s story, she is led out of the jail into the town square wearing the red letter “A” and holding her daughter.