Curley's wife is a unique character in the book. John Steinbeck proves to be extremely talented in character descriptions, especially in this case. Curley's wife portrays a very confident woman that is unsatisfied with what she has and does not hesitate to use her power to intimidate others. However, once a closer look is taken at her she seems to be hiding her true thoughts and feelings pretty well. In reality she is a lonely girl with broken dreams and a brilliant future lost to a ranch married to a man with money, but a man that is self centered and over confident.
The men living in the quarters are already aware that she is just hopping from one man to another, playing her cards, flirting and causing trouble before moving on to the next, regardless of the fact that she has a husband. When she talks sincerely without flirting, though, it is evident that she is just a lonely girl all alone on a ranch filled with only guys. Once upon a time she had dreams to be a movie star, but she has turned out to be just another girl trapped in a loveless marriage and tied to her home.
In most areas of the book she is made to sounds like such a nasty character but in the end I feel slightly sorry for her. She may act like a troublesome woman constanly annoying anyone but she is so much more underneath her tough, controlling exterior.
Similarities:
ReplyDeleteCurley's wife is similar to my character that I did, because in a place with all guys, they seem to be left out whether you are a wife of a boss's son or a coloured man. They all places to be like, Crooks stays in his bunk and Curley's wife is suppose to stay in her house.
Differences:
Curley's wife has a higher superiority because she is married to Curley unlike Crooks, he is a colored man that lives in a white man's world, so he doesn't have much freedom unlike Curley's wife. Crooks is a worker and Curley's wife is a wife of Curley, Curley's wife doesn't have to do much besides what she always do, flirting with guys and wandering around the place, unlike Crooks he is a hard worker