In a plot which is twisted throughout the whole story, the book Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, published in 1937, stuns its readers by taking them on a journey to the 1920s, where there was a severe economic depression in America, where hundreds of thousands became unemployed. The story is mainly told from the perspective of two ranch men, George and Lennie, to which the latter has caused the duo trouble due to the his lack of mental capability. Although George and Lennie are the protagonists, there is also an antagonist which plays a notable part in the story: Curley’s wife. She is a lonely victim who has been labelled due to her ‘awkward behavior’ of attempting to start a conversation with other ranch hands while they are working.
Upon her introduction, she is characterized as being a floozy: A girl who likes dressing up so much that Curling up one’s hair into ‘little sausages’ requires a lot of time and strength, approximately for about 1 week at modern times, but during the 1920s, we would have expected that she would need over half a month to create it into a perfect shape. Besides her hair, her shoes have even been decorated with feathers: ‘red mules, with the insteps of which were little bouquets of red ostrich feathers.’ (P.34). From the author’s extremely …show more content…
didn’t got news that she had been accepted into Hollywood, and nobody is willing to listen to her inner feelings); after the event had taken place, her body’s ‘fate’ wasn’t mentioned, as the workers have put all their hearts and minds on hunting down the ‘suspect’: Lennie, who was on a run upon seeing his mistake, and the writer did not mention whether her body was ‘buried’, ‘left behind in the barn’, or even ‘burnt’ or ‘dumped’, which is a clear representation that the men lacked pity for Curley’s
Upon her introduction, she is characterized as being a floozy: A girl who likes dressing up so much that Curling up one’s hair into ‘little sausages’ requires a lot of time and strength, approximately for about 1 week at modern times, but during the 1920s, we would have expected that she would need over half a month to create it into a perfect shape. Besides her hair, her shoes have even been decorated with feathers: ‘red mules, with the insteps of which were little bouquets of red ostrich feathers.’ (P.34). From the author’s extremely …show more content…
didn’t got news that she had been accepted into Hollywood, and nobody is willing to listen to her inner feelings); after the event had taken place, her body’s ‘fate’ wasn’t mentioned, as the workers have put all their hearts and minds on hunting down the ‘suspect’: Lennie, who was on a run upon seeing his mistake, and the writer did not mention whether her body was ‘buried’, ‘left behind in the barn’, or even ‘burnt’ or ‘dumped’, which is a clear representation that the men lacked pity for Curley’s