In the novel Of Mice and Men written by John Steinbeck, he purposely exercises the use of color schemes to foreshadow future events. He also uses dialogue, body language, and the setting to express Curley’s wife in many different aspects.
The overall first impression of Curley’s wife’s character shows her in an unflattering deposition. Curley’s wife has labels as a “tart” even a “bitch” by all the men working on the ranch (Steinbeck 28 32). A main reason behind the brutality of these words to describe her, is her flirtatious personality. Curley’s wife can is construed as troublemaker and tease to men. Curley’s wife intentionally puts herself against the door frame so “her body was thrown forward” (Steinbeck 31). As a married woman in the …show more content…
When Curley’s wife first enters the room it is noticed that the “sunshine in the doorway was cut off” by her body (Steinbeck 31). The light in the doorway represents George and Lennie’s dream; the light at the end of their dark tunnel. Curley’s wife blocking the light, foreshadows her future part in Lennie’s death, which leads to the end of George and Lennie’s dream. As the author describes Curley’s wife for the first time, the readers can interpret the darkness of her character. Her “rouge lips,” “fingernails. . .red,” and she wore “red mules,” the color red symbolizes danger and temptation (Steinbeck 31). The color red that Curley’s wife wears occasionally, shows her impurity that she brings in the novel. However, at the end of the novel she approaches Lennie wearing a “bright cotton dress and the mules with ostrich feathers” (Steinbeck 86). There is a color shift when she enters wearing a bright color bringing more light into the scene rather than taking it away as she has done before. In this particular conversation Curley’s wife has with Lennie she tells him her dreams and thoughts on Curley. She confides in Lennie and shows a new side that wasn’t flirtatious or threaten. She was being gentle and comforting towards Lennie, which has never been shown with Curley’s wife
The overall first impression of Curley’s wife’s character shows her in an unflattering deposition. Curley’s wife has labels as a “tart” even a “bitch” by all the men working on the ranch (Steinbeck 28 32). A main reason behind the brutality of these words to describe her, is her flirtatious personality. Curley’s wife can is construed as troublemaker and tease to men. Curley’s wife intentionally puts herself against the door frame so “her body was thrown forward” (Steinbeck 31). As a married woman in the …show more content…
When Curley’s wife first enters the room it is noticed that the “sunshine in the doorway was cut off” by her body (Steinbeck 31). The light in the doorway represents George and Lennie’s dream; the light at the end of their dark tunnel. Curley’s wife blocking the light, foreshadows her future part in Lennie’s death, which leads to the end of George and Lennie’s dream. As the author describes Curley’s wife for the first time, the readers can interpret the darkness of her character. Her “rouge lips,” “fingernails. . .red,” and she wore “red mules,” the color red symbolizes danger and temptation (Steinbeck 31). The color red that Curley’s wife wears occasionally, shows her impurity that she brings in the novel. However, at the end of the novel she approaches Lennie wearing a “bright cotton dress and the mules with ostrich feathers” (Steinbeck 86). There is a color shift when she enters wearing a bright color bringing more light into the scene rather than taking it away as she has done before. In this particular conversation Curley’s wife has with Lennie she tells him her dreams and thoughts on Curley. She confides in Lennie and shows a new side that wasn’t flirtatious or threaten. She was being gentle and comforting towards Lennie, which has never been shown with Curley’s wife