Curley's Wife Quote Analysis
Pages 84-84 (near end of chapter 4... in crooks room)
Varied interpretations
- Created by: Rachel123
- Created on: 15-05-13 11:53
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- Curley's Wife Page 84-5
- Starts with question
- Large proportion of dialogue is questions
- Questionable character
- Don't know much about her
- real name? only referred to as curlys wife= possession
- background info
- Don't know much about her
- 'Any of you boys seen Curley'
- Questionable character
- 'Any of you boys seen Curley'
- Large proportion of dialogue is questions
- "Her face was heavily made up'
- Make-up
- tart
- actress
- Hiding something
- Scars, bruises
- Domestic Violence? Curley abusing her
- Curley was a boxer
- Domestic Violence? Curley abusing her
- Blemishes-spots
- Scars, bruises
- Make-up
- Mans world
- "She stood still in the doorway"
- Stays outside
- Outside = almost neutral territory
- A place where she can converse.
- Outside = almost neutral territory
- Doesn't enter the room. Doesn't feel safe.
- Bunkhouse = Mans territory
- If she entered it be crossing the line, going to a place where shes not welcome, not part of
- Bunkhouse = Mans territory
- Easy espace
- Threat of being out-numbered
- Stays outside
- Metaphors
- House = safe place for her to be
- Outside = almost neutral territory
- A place where she can converse.
- "She stood still in the doorway"
- "and her eyes travelled from one face to another"
- Gains attention through eye contact
- Witchcraft?
- "Lennie looked fascinated"
- Under her spell.
- Lennie gets killed because of her.
- Under her spell.
- "Candy and Crooks were scowling, down away, from her eyes
- Safe
- "Lennie looked fascinated"
- "They left the weak ones here"
- Darwin - Natural selection.
- Sympathetic.
- Crooks-Black, Crippled
- Candy-Old, No hand
- Lennie- Simple
- Chooses them to pick on
- She's picked on by Curley
- Picks on them because their weak.
- Revenge. Lets out her suffering on those weaker than her.
- "Ever one of you's scared the rest is going to get something on you"
- Trust doesn't exist in her society.
- George doesn't trust Lennie
- Curley doesn't trust her. Doesn't trust slim with her.
- She doesn't trust Curley
- Not afraid to speak the truth.
- Aware of the society they live in.
- Trust doesn't exist in her society.
- "Think I like to stick in that house alla time?"
- Painful Irony
- Workers dream about what she and Curley have. But the fail to see their fortune.
- She and Curley fail to empathise.
- Has a house but doesn't want/ use it. Workers dream about having their own house.
- Painful Irony
- Starts with question
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