How Is Curley's Wife Presented In Of Mice And Men

In “Of Mice and Men” Curley’s wife doesn’t have a name. She is always just referred to as Curley’s wife despite being a major character in the story. This is to show her as a trophy, how Curley doesn’t value her like he should. The other workers, including Curley himself, just think of her as an object, mainly a sexual object. It is completely unfair to her, and mainly it’s to show the reader how women were treated during that time. Although she was quite flirtatious, she meant no harm. It was simply her personality and the workers took it as her wanting to get with them. Men were extremely sexist and just thought they were better all around. Thankfully, some things have changed, although not completely, but times are not exactly the same …show more content…
They were extremely sexist and only thought of women as objects. In the story, the reader can see this happening by the way the workers treat Curley’s wife. They refuse to talk to her even when she is just being friendly. They also take her friendliness as flirting. She isn’t trying to get with them because she is actually loyal to Curley, it’s simply her personality. All the workers see her as a sexual objet, not a human being. Steinbeck did this to show sexism during this time, therefore that’s why she doesn’t have a name. Everyone sees her as Curley owning her, none of them see her as her own person. It’s completely unfair and just shows how men think they are better than …show more content…
This is because we can visually see her and the way she is treated and acts. In the book we mainly see her as being a skank. She is described as sleeping around and always trying to get with the other workers. We get more of a visual with the movie and we can see how she acts and how the workers treat her. They are constantly rude to her and mistreating her even when she is trying to be friendly. They are some differences from the book to movie because of the visual and also it makes us feel bad for her due to the fact we can see her emotions and see the tears and the hurt she is going