Curley's Wife

Curley's Wife

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

Resource summary

	Created by Mrs Peacock about 9 years ago