Curley's Wife Quotations 6-10

Question 1

6)

Answer 1

Curley’s Wife craves attention from other men on the ranch due to her loneliness: ‘Any you boys seen Curley?’. She asks in the hope that it would then lead on to more detailed conversation

Question 2

7)

Answer 2

Curley’s Wife knows she has power over others because of her marriage. She knows this when she says to Crooks: ‘You know what I can do to you if you open your trap? I could get you strung up on a tree so easy it ain’t even funny’

Question 3

8)

Answer 3

Curley’s Wife believes she was cheated of a successful movie career: ‘He says he was gonna put me in the movies. Says I was a natural’

Question 4

9)

Answer 4

She only married Curley to get away from home: ‘I wasn’t gonna stay no place where I couldn’t get nowhere”

Question 5

10)

Answer 5

Despite being his newly wedded wife, Curley’s Wife doesn’t like Curley. She says to Lennie in the barn: ‘I don’t like Curley. He ain’t a nice fella’