Summary GCSE English - Curley's Wife Character Profile
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the only woman but she’s the only character not to be given a name
➝ showing her lack of importance and portrays her as Curley’s property
as she’s just his possession but ironically enough even though these are
the only two characters with an human to human relationship they
can’t be seen together(when alive) at any one point in the novel –
➝ It seems like they are playing a game of hide and seek throughout the
novel(except they are both seekers).
➝ She openly admits that she gets ‘awful lonely’ as she isn't allowed to
talk to ‘nobody but Curley’. She also says that she doesn't ‘like Curley’.
➝ At this point we start to understand Curley's Wife so we are able to
sympathise for her because we have just met Curley and know his
character and so actually we sympathise with her but still have a
dislike for her because we’re told by the protagonists she is ‘jail bait’
but she says ‘I never get to talk to nobody. I get awful lonely’
➝ Curley’s wife’s statements here are short and simple, reflecting her
sparse and limited life on the ranch. She is shown to use only a few
words here, in the same way as she speaks very few words in her day-
to-day life.
➝ The word awful is used like we would use ‘really’ to emphasise how
lonely she is, but the word awful also shows how sad her life is.
Misunderstood:
® Curley’s wife is very attractive. She is called ‘purty’ by numerous
characters and even Slim says ‘hi good-looking’ to her.
® She is very proud and she wears a lot of makeup and to the ranch
workers, and the reader this is all because she wants attention.
® To some extent this is true because we learn that she dreamt of being
a movie star and she escaped control of her mum but never ended
up making it to Hollywood, even though being promised, she was
misled.
® We then understand that she wears the clothes she does to pretend
to live her dream just like George and Lennie repeat their dream as a
bedtime story it’s the same concept and when we realise it evokes
guilt from the reader as we’ve completely misunderstood her
character and motives.
® Note we also misunderstand her flirtatious tone and believe her to just
be a ‘tart’ when actually she’s lonely and wants companionship.
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