'Of Mice and Men: A Novel by John Steinbeck\r'

'In the novel of mice and hands,Steinbeck never gives Curley’s wife a name. This is done to sight that she does not have whatever identity or opinion on the ranch. As Curley’s married woman is a re incloseation of all in all wo custody in the mid-thirties I opinion Steinbeck utilises her to evidence that she does not have any identity or position on the ranch. As Curley’s married woman is a image of all women in the mid-thirties I savour Steinbeck uses her to show that most women jeopardize then had no identity or position in the working world.\r\nNo characters in the novella care for Curley’s wife and very weeny attention is given to her. However many of the men only see her as an goal. I say Steinbeck conveys that idea by his description of her. When we and George and Lennie are outgrowth introduced to her, Steinbeck takes a long time to specify her. ‘She had abundant rouged lips and wide-spaced eyes, heavily made up. Her fing er nails were red. Her hairsbreadth hung in little clusters, like sausages…’ This I tone Steinbeck uses to present Curley’s Wife as an object to the men and troupe.\r\nIt is to show that Curley’s wife is worth as much as she is wearing. But Steinbeck doesn’t only use the description of what she is wearing, he to a fault fully describes her actions. This is to show the physical awareness the men have towards her. ‘She put her hands behind her stern and leaned against the door frame so that her body was propel forward’ Steinbeck’s description of Curley’s Wife’s actions, I study, is to not only describe the men’s physical awareness, scarce to show the desperation of Curley’s Wife and the women in the 1930s.\r\nSteinbeck presents the men’s reactions towards her as hostile through the use of language. When George graduation exercise meets her he responds to her ‘brusquely’. I thi nk this is to show the hesitance men have towards Curley’s Wife. I feel Steinbeck not only does this to invite us feel sympathy towards Curley’s Wife and women in the 1930s, but as well towards men in the 1930s as they have to be super careful and hostile so they can admit their jobs. This I think is the contrast Steinbeck is trying to contact towards Lennie’s reaction.\r\nAs Lennie does not understand principle social behaviour he is in scare of Curley’s Wife. I think Steinbeck does this to show that two people who don’t fit into society are maybe the ones that do. John Steinbeck uses different methods to present Curley’s Wife and women in the 1930s. I expend Steinbeck uses Curley’s Wife as a representation of injustice in the 1930s. Steinbeck presents the character of Curley’s Wife as manipulative; however I feel he only does this to make us feel sympathy to Curley’s Wife and women in the 1930s.\r\nThe concom itant that Curley’s wife has to be manipulative to bring attention which she is so starved for does not blot out any sympathy that the reader could have for her but drives it so that the reader is more sympathetic. I also feel that Steinbeck uses Curley’s wife as a reflection on men in the 1930s as they are manipulative yet hate Curley’s wife because she is manipulative; they do not realise that it is them that made her so in the first place. I feel that ‘Of Mice and Men’ is a unblemished representation of the treatment of human beings in the 1920s.\r\n'