Feminism over “Of Mice and Men” Being a woman in earlier times was harder than it is now. In earlier times feminism was more significant than it is today, Women were not permitted to do things men were permitted to do. Feminism is the belief that women should have equal rights with men. There was significant amount of hatred toward women at the time. They had to do what they were told or they would most likely get hit. Woman had to define their own roles, and use talents for survival. Women were not treated reasonably in the time period that Of Mice and Men was written. The novel Of Mice and Men is set in a misogynistic time period, the Great Depression. Curley’s wife is the only woman in Of Mice and Men who plays an aspect in the story.
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“ (Hayashi) . In the book it describe Curley’s wife as “She had full, rouged lips and wide-spaced eyes, heavily made up. Her fingernails were red. Her hair hung in little rolled clusters, like sausages. She wore a cotton house dress and red mules, on the insteps of which were little bouquets of red ostrich feathers.” Curley’s wife suffers from being lonely all the time because “she is the only woman on a ranch where women are treat as nothing more than sexual objects.” (Broder)She never meant any harm to anyone, as she states in Of mice and men to Crooks, Lennie and Candy” Well, I ain’t giving you no trouble. Think I don’t like to talk to somebody ever’ once in a while? Think I like to stick in that house alla time?” (Steinbeck) “George Milton refers to Curley’s Wife as a tramp and a trap.” (Meyer) Curley’s wife did not do what she did just to get the men’s …show more content…
Some Difficulties in a man’s world is “The first observation one tends to make about Steinbeck’s women is that there are very few who are not married and who are not professional whores. It would seem, therefore, that rather than viewing the woman as an autonomous individual, Steinbeck prefers to concern himself with women in their relationships, be they personal of professional, to men. Women, especially single women, seem to be compelled to act in certain ways simply because of the male presence and male expectations.” (Beatty). The men never want women around unless it is prostitutes. They treat women like they are sexual objects, and have women have no purpose of being on the ranch besides being a
“ (Hayashi) . In the book it describe Curley’s wife as “She had full, rouged lips and wide-spaced eyes, heavily made up. Her fingernails were red. Her hair hung in little rolled clusters, like sausages. She wore a cotton house dress and red mules, on the insteps of which were little bouquets of red ostrich feathers.” Curley’s wife suffers from being lonely all the time because “she is the only woman on a ranch where women are treat as nothing more than sexual objects.” (Broder)She never meant any harm to anyone, as she states in Of mice and men to Crooks, Lennie and Candy” Well, I ain’t giving you no trouble. Think I don’t like to talk to somebody ever’ once in a while? Think I like to stick in that house alla time?” (Steinbeck) “George Milton refers to Curley’s Wife as a tramp and a trap.” (Meyer) Curley’s wife did not do what she did just to get the men’s …show more content…
Some Difficulties in a man’s world is “The first observation one tends to make about Steinbeck’s women is that there are very few who are not married and who are not professional whores. It would seem, therefore, that rather than viewing the woman as an autonomous individual, Steinbeck prefers to concern himself with women in their relationships, be they personal of professional, to men. Women, especially single women, seem to be compelled to act in certain ways simply because of the male presence and male expectations.” (Beatty). The men never want women around unless it is prostitutes. They treat women like they are sexual objects, and have women have no purpose of being on the ranch besides being a