All of the men think she is a big tramp. She is always trying to the talk to the men. She is the only girl on the ranch, so she is going to talk to all the men. She is so lonely and Curley is always working and does not really talk to his wife. “I get lonely” (87).
“If you can’t keep control of your god-damn wife what do you want me to do about it?” Curley’s wife’s behaviour on the ranch angered Curley so much that he often vented his anger on the other men because Lennie was laughing to himself. Curley got self-conscious and started a fight because Curley thought Lennie was laughing at him. Curley’s wife was used to convey the misery of a woman’s life on a ranch. She was lonely because no one wanted to speak to her or listen to her. She was desperate for attention and someone to like her.
As the men are working on the fields all day Curley’s Wife has nothing to do but hang around. Her own way of solving this problem was to become flirtatious. This meant talking to the men more and wearing more makeup to get their attention. Curley’s Wife is portrayed through her appearance, conversations with other characters, and what other characters say about her. Curley’s Wife’s appearance and actions around the ranch workers portrays her to be trampy.
Many of the stereotypes we read about this week were painfully obvious in the two episodes which I viewed. The opening scene of the first episode, "Horizontal Hold," shows Carrie discovering a cock roach in the kitchen and screaming for her husband to come deal with it, implying that this professional career woman needs a man to protect her from an insect. Despite this apparent stereotypical dependency on her man (Planned Parenthood), Carrie is herself, in fact, the half of the relationship to perform all other responsibilities, including everything from grocery replenishment to on-demand sexual favors. Carrie is also the more intelligent of the pair, and the only one concerned that there is a lack of communication in their relationship. In fact in the second episode that I viewed "Knee Jerk," produced six years after "Horizontal Hold," Carrie continues to complain to her husband that they never talk and have substituted communication for sex.
When someone cannot socialize or encounter the same surroundings, they begin to act very talkative and get aggravated easily. For example, when the narrator says, “I get unreasonable angry at John sometimes,” (2). The narrator gets aggravated at everything quickly, such as her husband, the house, her brother’s sister, and that yellow wallpaper. Especially when she says, “I never saw a worse paper in my life,” (3). She is really aggravated with being trapped in the room but projected her feelings toward the
This is manifest when she attempts to manipulate situations and the male characters with her sexual presence. This is evidenced when Steinbeck uses the character of Whit after George has told him he hasn't seen Curley's new wife to state “Well stick around an' keep your eyes open. You'll see plenty. She ain't concealing nothing..” Steinbeck is effective in showing women in the 1930's had very little power and the only power we are sure they had was a seductive one. Steinbeck’s treatment of women was not a positive one as some of the ranch workers described her as a ‘bitch’, ‘tramp’ and ‘tart’.
Curley’s wife confesses her loneliness of being stuck in the house all the time and to not liking Curley’s company. She becomes even more angry about the lie of the circumstances of Curley’s hand injury and it is now obvious that her and Curley’s relationship is extremely dysfunctional and probably emotionally damaging to the wife. In this novel Crooks possesses the majority of loneliness and discrimination. He has more possessions than anyone, because he is a permanent worker unlike the other workers who just come and go. Crooks has his own room which is connected to the barn, and is supposed to be a privilege.
When they arrive at the farm, Lennie is automatically drawn to a very sneaky woman that remains nameless throughout the book. The woman is characterized by the other men as having 'the eye" for every man on the ranch. The woman is married to Curley, the hot-headed son of the boss. Lennie is mentally challenged and does not realize his own strength. Throughout the entire book there is foreshadowing of Lennie's accidental killing
She solved the problems that burgomaster gave her, as well as made a game of her marriage with the burgomaster. Finally she outwitted her husband and her husband always consulted her whenever a very difficult case came up. As a woman lived in those times, she conciliated respect with her cleverness. Raimunda is very kind and tolerant. She hated her mother since she thought her mother should respond on that event that her father raped her.
Says [she] was a natural” (Steinbeck 88). Marrying Curley affected her life immensely because it ruined her life and chances of becoming an actress. Therefore, the character of Curley’s wife was greatly affected by hope