Curleys Wife Flashcards
Red colour connotations
“Full,rouged lips”
“Mules with the red ostrich feathers”
“Her rouged cheeks and reddened lips made her seem alive”
She has no respect
“So that’s what Curley picks for a wife”
“Well I think curleys married… a tart”
“Maybe you just better go along an’ roll your hoop”
She is misunderstood
“George says I ain’t to have nothing to do with you”
“Whatta they think I am anyways”
“She got the eye going all the time on everybody”
She is lonely
“Think I don’t like to talk to somebody ever’ once in a while?”
“I never get to talk to nobody. I get awful lonely.”
“Any of you boys seen Curley?”
She uses her authority over crooks
“I could have you stung up on a tree so easy, it ain’t even funny”
She hates Curley and he neglects her
“Sure I gotta husband. You all seen him. Swell guy, ain’t he? Spends all his time saying what he’s gonna do to guys he don’t like, and he don’t like nobody”
“I don’t like Curley, he ain’t a nice fella”
She is blamed for everything because she’s a woman
“Everybody knowed you’d mess things up. You wasn’t no good. You ain’t no good now, you lousy tart”
Bitter
“Talking to a bunch of bindle stiffs, a nigger an a dum dum and lousy ol’sheep and liking it because there ain’t nobody else”
Naive
“An old guy said he could put me in the pictures”
Naive with Lennie “soft quote”
“What do you think I am, a kid?”
