Curleys Wife Flashcards
Views on Curleys wife
Tart/ tramp/ loo-loo/bitch/ jail bait.
Description of curleys wife
“She had full rouged lips and wide spaced eyes and heavily made up”
“Her fingernails were red. Her hair hung in little rolled clusters, like sausages”
Loneliness
“I never get to talk to nobody I get awful lonely”
“You can talk to people, but I can’t to nobody but Curley”- shows she’s really lonely and is controlled by Curley
Her being racist
“Listen ni**er, I could get you stung up on a tree so easily…” her to crooks
“A ni***r, a dum-dum, and a lousy ol’ sheep” says this in chapter 4 when all the men have gone out.
Chapter 4 when she goes into crooks, Lennie and candy
“Left all the weak ones here”
Curleys wife American dream
“ could’ve been in the movies and had nice clothes”
“I coulda made something of myself”
“I could’ve sat in them big hotels and had pictures took of me”
Her dream was to become a Hollywood actress but that never came true
Her death
“All the meanness and the plannings and the discontent and the ache for attention were all gone from her face”
Her Opinions of Curley
“Sure I gotta husban’… swell guy ain’t he”
“I don’t like Curley, he ain’t a nice fella”
Looking for attention
“She said playfully”
“Sometimes Curley is in here”
“I never got nobody to talk to, I get awful lonely”
