She is young, attractive newly married wife of Curley, the Boss's son.
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What does she do throughout (point 1) ?
She makes Curley jealous by flirting with the ranch hands
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What does ranch hands mean ?
A manual laborer on a ranch
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What does she do throughout (point 2) ?
She creates tension in the bunk house
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What does she do throughout (point 3) ?
She is killed by Lennie, and is therefore the reason that George has to shoot him.
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'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.'
Curley's wife is described as a 'tart' and is seen as '*********' by the ranch hands.
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'Think i'm gonna stay in that two-by-four house and listen how Curley's gonna lead with his left twice, and then ... right cross?'
She is very lonely + trapped by loveless marriage
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'You know what I can do to you if you open your trap?'
She can be vindictive + she will use the power her status gives her, even if it is totally unfair.
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'He say he was gonna put me in the movies.'
Curley's wife has her dream destroyed too
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'She was very pretty and simple, and her face was sweet and young.'
She was never really evil. Her punishment outweighs the crimes she has committed.
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What does she recognise ?
That she is not particularly over sexuallised, but has been forced to recognise that her sexuallity is the only weapon she has + only thing that gets her noticed.
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Why isn't her name mentioned ?
It helps create the impression of her as someone with no individual existence of her own - era
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Card 2
Front
What does she do throughout (point 1) ?
Back
She makes Curley jealous by flirting with the ranch hands
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