Now her rouged cheeks and reddened lips made her seem alive and sleeping very lightly. The curls, tiny little sausages, were spread on the hay behind her head, and her lips were parted.” ( “Of Mice and Men” pg.93). I think the way Steinbeck describe Curley’s wife in death is kind of ironic because the dead Curley's wife are described more vibrant than when she was alive. Her death seems the relief to her from the difficult life that she have, “Curley’s wife lay with a half-covering of yellow hay. And the meanness and the plannings and the discontent and the ache for attention were all gone from her face.” ( “Of Mice and Men”
Now her rouged cheeks and reddened lips made her seem alive and sleeping very lightly. The curls, tiny little sausages, were spread on the hay behind her head, and her lips were parted.” ( “Of Mice and Men” pg.93). I think the way Steinbeck describe Curley’s wife in death is kind of ironic because the dead Curley's wife are described more vibrant than when she was alive. Her death seems the relief to her from the difficult life that she have, “Curley’s wife lay with a half-covering of yellow hay. And the meanness and the plannings and the discontent and the ache for attention were all gone from her face.” ( “Of Mice and Men”