Curley's Wife Insecure Analysis

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Curley’s wife represents every woman in society who is insecure in life in someway; therefore, eroding people and society’s trust. Meaning they are lead by their insecurities to do things that they shouldn’t do; therefore, causing people and society to lose trust in the insecure person. Specifically, Curley’s wife is insecure because of how her life is rather than how it could’ve been. Subsequently, this leads to regret, which is contagious like the flu: regret leads to her doing things and acting out in ways that she shouldn’t; therefore, she is receiving attention from others. Just like all the other women in society she had her life picked for her; this makes her feel like she has no power over her own life so she tries to do things …show more content…

The largest insecurity she has is her life. How she could’ve had a great successful life, but instead she’s trapped on the ranch, this is really shown when she is talking to Lennie. “ Coulda been in the movies, an’ had nice clothes — all them nice clothes like they wear. An’ I coulda sat in them big hotels, an’ had pitchers took of me. When they had them previews I coulda went to them, an’ spoke in the video, an’ it wouldn’ta cost me a cent because I was in the pitcher” (89). This shows how insecure she is about her life, she believes she could’ve been known. Rather than living on the ranch with Curley and being known as his wife. In this novel it shows how insecurity corrupts the trust of people and society. It shows that everyone is insecure about something in their life and acts out in ways where they can try to forget their insecurities and creates them for others, leading them to feel superior to others in society. This connects to real-life because today people are still insecure about something in their life, leading them to do things they wouldn’t normally do so they can feel better or makes them feel as if they have control. It’s showing how people like to cover up the insecurities within themselves, and only look at the good within themselves; consequently, they have to look at what’s wrong with others creating feeling of control and empowerment, instead of trying to improve

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