Is Curley's Wife A Victim Or A Villain Essay

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In the book of mice and men by John Steinbeck, we as the audience feel confounded about Curly's wife. The question that is presented here on this my access assessment is whether Curly's wife is a victim or a villain. I am leaning toward the fact that Curly's wife is actually a villain in this book. Let's start off by knowing who exactly Curly's wife is and what this book is all about. Curly's wife is the wife of Curly who is one of the main side characters in the book. He works at a farm like all the other characters in the book, and they all live in a bunk house together for the job. The setting is set back in the 1930's about two men, George and Lenny, who are trying to achieve the American dream. I feel that Curly's wife is a villain because …show more content…

She gives people especially the men around the bunkhouse the eye which I perceive as a flirt to the men. Not only that but when she headed back to the bunkhouse only to find everyone else besides Curly, she regarded them as the weak ones. That is not a very nice thing to say to others, is it. Curly's wife seems to take advantage of others when she can. For an example, she could make Lenny do what she wants whenever because Lenny likes her.

Secondly, Curly's wife is the most racist character in the novel. She was really aggressive towards Crooks after he got mad at her for invading her rights and privacy. Curly's wife snapped back and called Crooks a "nigger" multiple times. She told Crooks what she could do to him within seconds and threatened him multiple times and even threatened to hang him on a tree. That's cruel, and to think Curly's wife was a victim too. I thought wrong and I totally agree with my opinions I may have about Curly's …show more content…

As she finds out what happened to Curly's hand, she laughs and mocks what happened to him by saying bologna. Curly's wife found out from the other men that Curly had gotten his hand stuck in a machine and she stated that she likes machines now. This implies to the audience that she liked that fact that he gotten his hand hurt in the machine. Curly's wife is becoming even more evil as I read about her.

On the other hand, some say that Curly's wife was actually a victim to prejudice and abuse from the men. Not only that but she had gotten her neck snapped by Lenny which makes the audience quite more favorable towards Curly's wife since she died. Curly's wife was always mistreated, abused, lonely, had no future or nothing. Not only that but she is in a very unhappy marriage as suggested through her feelings about Curly. I guess Lenny snapping the neck of the rat kind of foreshadows Curly's wife getting her neck snapped by Lenny because she was a

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