The way relationships are presented in ‘Of Mice and Men’ and ‘An Inspector Calls’ are based upon the setting of both texts which greatly affects the story, the writer’s beliefs are quite similar as they both repeatedly mention and show the amount of inequality towards women although they are both set in different times we can see that in those years between ‘An Inspector Calls’ written in 1947 and ‘Of Mice and Men’ written in 1937s it shows mankind has not yet changed and the writers want to make the people aware of this, “We are responsible for each other”, “We are members of one body”
Both of these texts have introduced characters with authority, one of those are ‘Inspector Goole’ from ‘An Inspector Calls’, The quote above at the time was …show more content…
Their relationship is shown as a substandard and undesirable one, curly is described as an over protective husband “Curly burst into the room excitedly ‘any you guys seen my wife?’ he demanded.” The word demanded establishes his lack of trust towards his fellow ranch workers and also his wife. The fact that he has the audacity to be distrustful that his wife is cheating on him is quite ironic because he himself cheats which is hypocritical, “think I don’t know where they all went? Even Curley, I know where they all went” This mentions that Curly is at the Whore house rather at his own. His relationship is not the norm, to him his wife is an object that he owns, and she is not her own person. ‘Curley’s wife’ she is introduced with no name, no title quite similar to ‘Candy’s dog’ this means that Steinbeck is trying to convey that the character is no better than a dog. The 1930s where a very harsh time for people that did not fit in to society, women, black people, the
Both of these texts have introduced characters with authority, one of those are ‘Inspector Goole’ from ‘An Inspector Calls’, The quote above at the time was …show more content…
Their relationship is shown as a substandard and undesirable one, curly is described as an over protective husband “Curly burst into the room excitedly ‘any you guys seen my wife?’ he demanded.” The word demanded establishes his lack of trust towards his fellow ranch workers and also his wife. The fact that he has the audacity to be distrustful that his wife is cheating on him is quite ironic because he himself cheats which is hypocritical, “think I don’t know where they all went? Even Curley, I know where they all went” This mentions that Curly is at the Whore house rather at his own. His relationship is not the norm, to him his wife is an object that he owns, and she is not her own person. ‘Curley’s wife’ she is introduced with no name, no title quite similar to ‘Candy’s dog’ this means that Steinbeck is trying to convey that the character is no better than a dog. The 1930s where a very harsh time for people that did not fit in to society, women, black people, the