Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Curley's Wife
- No power
- Women in 1930s
America were low
in the hierarchy.
- A possession
- No name - Curley's Wife
- More power
than Crooks
- "I could get you strung up
on a tree so easy it ain't
even funny." - Curley's Wife
- A sexual object
- She had full, rouged lips
and wide-spaced eyes,
heavily made up.
- Her fingernails were red.
- She -put her hands behind
her back and leaned against
the door frame so that her
body was thrown forward.
- "Jesus, what a tramp," - George
- Lonely
- "Think I don't know where they all
went? Even Curley." - Curley's Wife
- "Think I don't like to talk to
somebody ever' once in a
while?" - Curley's Wife
- "I get lonely... You can talk to
people, but I can't talk to nobody
but Curley." - Curley's Wife
- Dream
- "a guy tol' me he could put me
in pitchers..." - Curley's Wife
- "this guy says I was a natural." - Curley's Wife
- A threat
- "Don't you even take a
look at that bitch." -
George
- "I seen 'em poison before,
but I never seen no piece of
jail bait worse than her." -
George
- "she's a rattrap if ever I seen
one." - George
- Central to
the plot
- First appearance
- sets her up as a
threat.
- Second appearance -
with the other
'outcasts', establishes
her power to cause
harm.
- Third appearance
- she is killed by
Lennie.