Qoutes for curlers wife Flashcards
“I never get to talk to nobody. I get awful lonely.”
expresses her deep sense of ioslation being the only women on the ranch
“You can talk to people, nut i cant talk to nobody but curley. Else he gets mad. How’d you like not to talk to anybody”
Shares restrictions and isolation of her marriage and how curley controls her
“coulda been in the movies, an’ had nice clothes - all them nice clothes like they wear”
curleys wife laments the confinment of her life and missed opportunities, believeing she was denied freedom by her circumstances
“They left all the weak ones here”
Curleys wife points out the social heiarchy on the ranch, highlighting how the weak and marganilised are trusted unjustly
“I could get you strung up on a tree so easy it aint even funny”
curles wife threatans crooks, showcasing the deep racial injustice embedded in the soceity at the time
“They left all the weak ones here” - prejudice
curleys wife disimisivly groups herself, candy, crooks, and lennie together, showing how society marginalises those seen as weak or different
“I could get you strung up sp easy it aint even funny”- prejudice
curleys wife threatens crooks, exploiting her power as a white women over a black man, revealing the deeply ingrained racial injustice of the time
“Listen n’'’er… you know what i can do to you if you open your trap?”
curleys wife uses racial language to asserrt dominance over crooks, showing how prejudice is weaponised
“A girl was standing there looking in… she had full, rouged lips and wide-spread eyes, heavilly made up”
curleys wife is introduced through a lens of judgement and prejudice, defined by her apperance and labelled as a troublemaker
“Youre a nice guy. i dont know why i cant talk to you. i aint doin’ no harm to you”
curleys wife reveals her isolation, caused in part by the prejudice assumptions made about her character and behaviour
“They left all the weak ones here” - weakness
curleys wife points out the isolation of the socially weak - herself, candy, crooks, and lennie - emphasising societys tendeceys to marginalise those seen as vunerable
“Youre a nice guy. i dont know why i cant talk to you. i never get to talk to nobody”
curleys wife expresses her emotional weakness and loneliness, revealng how societal constrains prevent her from forming meaningful connections
“I could get you strung up so easy it aint even funny” - weakness
curelys wife exploits crooks’ social weakness as a black man, using her power to assert dominance over him
“They left all the weak ones here” - weakness
curleys wife points out the isolation of the socially weak - herself, candy, crooks, and lennie - emphasising societys tendancy to marginalise those seen as vunerable
“Youre a nice guy. i dont get why i cant talk to you. i never get to talk to nobody” - weakness
curleys wife expresses her emotional weakness and loneliness, revealing how societal constraints prevent her from forming meanigful connections
