The Role Of Curley's Wife In Of Mice And Men

In the book, Of Mice and Men, the author, John steinbeck, vividly explains and shows the mental brutalities women had to bare throughout the characterization of Curley's wife. The broad plot of the book is about nomad workers who have no one in the world other than themselves. One dumb and strong, and the other with a shrewd head, but scrawny. In the book the setting takes place in a small ranch near the Stailas river. Where the ranch is filled with men and only one women, Curley's wife: which is what she was called because she did not have a name in the novella. In a way she was a victim, but more than that she was very influential towards the novella. She showed how women had lived their lives being the only women in the novella. She has no name at all as if she was utterly worthless. The men are kind to her when they are alone, but in a group they shun her. All because they are worried Curley will give them trouble if they even dare talk to his wife. She greatly influences the novella through her life as a women in the 1900s, and setting off the incident growing towards the climax. …show more content…
While she was young she had so many options of which she could have taken. Hollywood was one of them, “She tells Lennie about her dreams of living a different life. She reveals that her mother denied her the opportunity to join a traveling show when she was fifteen and then, years later, a talent scout spotted her and promised to take her to Hollywood to become a movie star...”(44), but her mother forbid her from doing so. Reason being was only because she was a girl: in the 1900s, women learned only how to do household chores their whole childhood and then waited to get married with a minimum say. Thus, women really didn't even have a say. Curley's wife is just like those women, yet a replica of their life, or it can even be said a