Of Mice and Men Curleys Wife

Page 1 2 Essay length 1165 words Submitted 21/08/2012 Share this essay Do non show me this again Are you in the right place? Jump to John Steinbeck and see how teachers think you should prepare in GCSE 854 AS and A-level 93 International Baccalaureate 1,024 University 15 Read more Save Submit similar essay Essay preview GCSE JOHN STEINBECK i? Task Of Mice and manpower In a letter . John Steinbeck Wrote of Curley wife She is a nice girl and not a floozy. Discuss and explain your own impression of Curleys wife.In Of Mice and hands John Steinbeck describes Curley wife as a character of many contradictions she is shown as both a nice girl and a floozy lonely still vindictive Motherly but also seductive. In this essay I will try to discuss both of her sides. Throughout the novel Curley wife acts and dresses as a floozy in the very beginning when we first see her she is dressed up nice and has her nails painted red which in those days was a sign of danger, she dresses in very good qual ity clothes and takes care of herself much more then she should as she is in a ranch rise of men and has chores as all the women those days had.She spends too much time on her appearance, in the novel it says she has rouge lips, hair in little sausages, and not only is she dressed very nice, she also acts very seductive by showing off her womanly parts she put her hands behind her approve and leaned against the door frame so her body was thrown forward. She leans against the door frame teasing the men, she knows she will get lots of attention because she is a young delightful girl and the men are always in the ranch and she is the only girl there.She also talks very flirtatiously with the men as she says things playfully showing she has no interest of finding her husband as she intended to do in the first place. When she is about to leave she says Nobody tail end pluck a person for looking which has a double meaning. It can be interpreted as you canat censure a person for look ing which would mean you cannot blame her for looking for Curley and you cannot blame a person for looking and admiring her.Also, when she enters the bunkhouse she says I am looking for Curley which is a lie because she is only saying that to flirt and talk to the men. We can tell that because when Slim says he has just seen Curley heading toward their house, she immediately becomes apprehensive and heads away because she does not want to be seen flirting with the men. The men know that she is in a loveless marriage to Curley.