If you were in a relationship, would you want to be worried about not being safe, or being controlled all the time? In these two books, The Great Gatsby and Of Mice and Men, demonstrate men of higher society that don’t treat their women right. People who are higher in society don’t treat the women right, and don’t take others feelings into account.
In The Great Gatsby, Tom Buchanan is very wealthy man, with a muscular, ‘cruel body’ (Fitzgerald, 7). He doesn’t value his wife Daisy, and treats others with disrespect. He lived in East egg, and married Nick Carraway's cousin Daisy (Fitzgerald, 5). Throughout the book we discover that he doesn’t have Daisy’s best interests at heart, cares more about his future, and his name in society. In the book …show more content…
Curley, was the boss's’ son, who was a thin, young man, with a brown face, brown eyes, and tightly curled hair (Steinbeck, 25). His attire was a work glove on his left hand and heeled boots, which represented that he was in the higher society class on the ranch (Steinbeck, 25). Curley married a women with rouged lips, wide spaced eyes, red fingernails, hair in rolled clusters, and who wore a cotton house dress, red mules, who was never named (Steinbeck, 31). Although Curley is a tenacious worker, and cares about having a good life. He cares more about himself rather than others, and more importantly his wife. Curley's wife meets George and Lennie (Steinbeck, 25). She meets Lennie again in the stables and Curley’s wife tells him that she feels lonely and controlled by Curley. “I never get to talk to nobody. I get awful lonely” she said. (Steinbeck, 86). “I can’t talk to nobody but Curley. Else he gets mad” (Steinbeck, 87). She added. Throughout the book, Curley goes into the barn and looks for his wife, to make sure he knows where she is all the time, and to make sure she isn’t talking to the other male workers (Steinbeck, 55). Curley also doesn’t treat others of lower society right. He made Lennie, his wife, and Crooks stay at the ranch while the healthy white men went into town to a whore house (Steinbeck, 76). The two texts agree to my statement, that men of high society don’t
In The Great Gatsby, Tom Buchanan is very wealthy man, with a muscular, ‘cruel body’ (Fitzgerald, 7). He doesn’t value his wife Daisy, and treats others with disrespect. He lived in East egg, and married Nick Carraway's cousin Daisy (Fitzgerald, 5). Throughout the book we discover that he doesn’t have Daisy’s best interests at heart, cares more about his future, and his name in society. In the book …show more content…
Curley, was the boss's’ son, who was a thin, young man, with a brown face, brown eyes, and tightly curled hair (Steinbeck, 25). His attire was a work glove on his left hand and heeled boots, which represented that he was in the higher society class on the ranch (Steinbeck, 25). Curley married a women with rouged lips, wide spaced eyes, red fingernails, hair in rolled clusters, and who wore a cotton house dress, red mules, who was never named (Steinbeck, 31). Although Curley is a tenacious worker, and cares about having a good life. He cares more about himself rather than others, and more importantly his wife. Curley's wife meets George and Lennie (Steinbeck, 25). She meets Lennie again in the stables and Curley’s wife tells him that she feels lonely and controlled by Curley. “I never get to talk to nobody. I get awful lonely” she said. (Steinbeck, 86). “I can’t talk to nobody but Curley. Else he gets mad” (Steinbeck, 87). She added. Throughout the book, Curley goes into the barn and looks for his wife, to make sure he knows where she is all the time, and to make sure she isn’t talking to the other male workers (Steinbeck, 55). Curley also doesn’t treat others of lower society right. He made Lennie, his wife, and Crooks stay at the ranch while the healthy white men went into town to a whore house (Steinbeck, 76). The two texts agree to my statement, that men of high society don’t