Not One Person Is Perfect, Therefore We Are Human
On a ranch full of men, Curley’s wife finds herself wandering for miles to even be acknowledged.Off at the Salinas River, in California, George and Lennie travels to a ranch looking to work after having to leave their previous job in Weed. The pair are friends but because of Lennie’s mental disability and actions, the two are usually caught up in something. Not everything goes smoothly on the ranch. Curley, the boss’s son, takes a liking to picking on Lennie and his wife creates problem because of her desire for attention. Lennie was given a puppy, but ends up killing it because of his strength. While tendering to his puppy in the barn, Curley’s wife shows up and they talk. Lennie grabbed her hair and stroked it but when she tells him to stop he panics and ends up breaking her neck. Lennie remembers that George told him if anything ever happens, he was to go and hide in the brush near the river. Once George finds him, he puts a nice image into Lennie’s mind and shoots him. John Steinbeck uses the gender, power, and biographical lens throughout his “Of Mice and Men” novella to show that even those who act out do …show more content…
She didn’t like for her vulnerability to be shown “and any show of fear or weakness brought an instant persecution” (Letter to Clara Luce). When she was given a hard time, she had become aggressive in order to cover her fright. When Curley’s wife is around the men she doesn’t exactly act very calm because “she has never talked to a man except in the sexual fencing conversation” (Letter to Clara Luce). She was always being a tease and leading on the men so that she wouldn’t be lonely. As a result, she was disliked among most of the men. Throughout the novella, Curley’s wife is seen through many different perspectives, but there is much more to her than what the men
On a ranch full of men, Curley’s wife finds herself wandering for miles to even be acknowledged.Off at the Salinas River, in California, George and Lennie travels to a ranch looking to work after having to leave their previous job in Weed. The pair are friends but because of Lennie’s mental disability and actions, the two are usually caught up in something. Not everything goes smoothly on the ranch. Curley, the boss’s son, takes a liking to picking on Lennie and his wife creates problem because of her desire for attention. Lennie was given a puppy, but ends up killing it because of his strength. While tendering to his puppy in the barn, Curley’s wife shows up and they talk. Lennie grabbed her hair and stroked it but when she tells him to stop he panics and ends up breaking her neck. Lennie remembers that George told him if anything ever happens, he was to go and hide in the brush near the river. Once George finds him, he puts a nice image into Lennie’s mind and shoots him. John Steinbeck uses the gender, power, and biographical lens throughout his “Of Mice and Men” novella to show that even those who act out do …show more content…
She didn’t like for her vulnerability to be shown “and any show of fear or weakness brought an instant persecution” (Letter to Clara Luce). When she was given a hard time, she had become aggressive in order to cover her fright. When Curley’s wife is around the men she doesn’t exactly act very calm because “she has never talked to a man except in the sexual fencing conversation” (Letter to Clara Luce). She was always being a tease and leading on the men so that she wouldn’t be lonely. As a result, she was disliked among most of the men. Throughout the novella, Curley’s wife is seen through many different perspectives, but there is much more to her than what the men