A Comparison Of Curley's Wife And Sybil Birling

Are Curley’s Wife and Sybil Birling presented as effective role models to the audience? How did the writers show this, in the novel and performance, and what was the rationale behind this? Explore how Steinbeck and Priestley portray the characters and how the characters are perceived by the audience as a result. Introduction In the movie Of Mice and Men and the play called the Inspector Calls, there are two main woman characters that are posed as women with negative attitude; they are named as Sybil Birling and Curley’s Wife. To begin with the character of Curley’s wife, she is a young pretty woman who is mistrusted by her husband, we can see this when Curley says to her she’s not allowed to be in the ranch workers’ bunk house plus none of the workers really pay courtesy on her because they know that they would get in trouble from Curley. Secondly, the lack of personal definition this character's purpose in the story. According to Steinbeck she is not a person but she’s a symbol. It was her preoccupation that her own beauty that helps precipitates her death. She …show more content…
Her personality is different to Curley’s Wife, Stubborn, Strict and Thoughtless, and the people who have this kind of attitude is unmanageable to speak to. One thing which is good about her is that she seems detached from the rest of the family, but she is described as a snob who doesn’t care about working class people, and only who respects the people of her class, she can sometimes be seen as a cold heartless person, evidently when she receives the news about Eva Smith’s suicide, she didn't really care about it. She disregards the news, not able to see how the death of a lower class person could be any of courtesy to, or associated to the Birling’s. Sybil looks as if the lower class people have different feelings of their own and thinks they're less human than