Curley
- Boss’ son
- Got married a couple weeks ago (p30)
- Appearance (p27): thing, young, brown eyes, tight curls, work glove on left hand, high-heeled
boots
- “Glove fulla Vaseline”, “keepin hand soft for wife” p30
- Inferiority complex (height) – overexerts image of strength and dominance: “arms gradually
bent...hands…into fists”, “glance…calculating and pugnacious” / “scraps w big guys…mad he aint
a big guy” (Candy) p29
- Not v good impressions on other characters: “Never did seem right to me” (Candy), “son of a
bitch” / “hate that kinda bastard” (George, p30-32)
- Boxer – seen in stance, also his fault (failed lightweight boxer): “done quite a bit in the ring”,
“arms gradually bent...hands…into fists” p29
- Suspicious of his wife’s behavior: “Which way’d she go?” p41, “popped into the doorway again”
p42
- Really begins to notice and size up George later on: “took in his height…measured his reach” p41
- Attacks Lennie, ends up hurt himself p71-3: “flopping like a fish on a line”
- Boss’ son
- Got married a couple weeks ago (p30)
- Appearance (p27): thing, young, brown eyes, tight curls, work glove on left hand, high-heeled
boots
- “Glove fulla Vaseline”, “keepin hand soft for wife” p30
- Inferiority complex (height) – overexerts image of strength and dominance: “arms gradually
bent...hands…into fists”, “glance…calculating and pugnacious” / “scraps w big guys…mad he aint
a big guy” (Candy) p29
- Not v good impressions on other characters: “Never did seem right to me” (Candy), “son of a
bitch” / “hate that kinda bastard” (George, p30-32)
- Boxer – seen in stance, also his fault (failed lightweight boxer): “done quite a bit in the ring”,
“arms gradually bent...hands…into fists” p29
- Suspicious of his wife’s behavior: “Which way’d she go?” p41, “popped into the doorway again”
p42
- Really begins to notice and size up George later on: “took in his height…measured his reach” p41
- Attacks Lennie, ends up hurt himself p71-3: “flopping like a fish on a line”
