Curley Flashcards
Curley ‘won’t ever get canned’
Show how capitalists abused their power and violence as they thought they were superior to everybody else.
‘Curley stepped over to Lennie like a terrier’
This simile shows how Curley is small and aggressive to try and assert his power however naturally he is just a fool.
‘He glanced coldly at George’
This adverb shows how he is always violent and trying to assert power.
‘tightly curled hair’
Imagery creates a vivid picture of how Curley is hostile and aggressive towards the ranch workers.
Candy says his glove is’ ‘full vaseline’
This shows how he views his wife as a sexual object and not a human, which is dehumanising and shows misogyny in society.
When he sees his wife dead ‘he comes to life’
This shows how he only wants to get revenge and not grieve his wife’s death which shows the patriarchal society.
‘You seen a girl around here?’
This definitive noun shows how he has no respect to call her by her name.
Slim ‘don’t need no high-heeled boots’
Steinbeck uses Slim as the antithesis of Curley to show how his ideal citizen is different from Curley, who embodies everything dysfunctional about American society.
