Curley’s wife is responsible for her own death.
Essay plan
Agree Disagree
She is trapped in a loveless marriage, finding no -She speaks disparagingly of her house and her
comfort in her husband or her home and home: “I tell you I ain’t used to livin’ like this”
declaring, “I don’t like Curley” -She has a dream to help her escape from the
reality of her life
She is afraid of Curley and speaks of him in a The way she dresses and is excessively made up
disgusted manner, “Swell guy, ain’t he?” is inappropriate for the surroundings, “rouged
She is also treated as a possession and lips.... heavily made up....cotton house dress
threatened by Curley and red mules.... bouquets of red ostrich
feathers”
She is left alone for long periods of time: “I get She married for entirely selfish reasons and she
awful lonely” but is not allowed to leave the is continuously dissatisfied and seeking a way
ranch out;
She is not allowed to talk to anyone because of -She is vicious, threatening and vindictive when
his jealousy: “... I can’t talk to nobody but dealing with Crooks
Curley. Else he gets mad.” -She deliberately flirts with the men: “leaned
Curley appears to have only a sexual interest in against the door frame so that her body was
her: “glove fulla Vaseline!” but he also goes to thrown forward”
Suzy’s place, disrespecting her
- She is stifled and frustrated on the ranch:
“Standin’ here talking to a bunch of bindle
stiffs – a nigger and a dum-dum and a lousy
old sheep – and likin’ it because they ain’t
nobody else”
- Curley shows no grief at her death – only -She is forever finding excuses to enter the
anger bunkhouse
- The men think “A ranch with a bunch of -She seems to deliberately avoid Curley
guys on it ain’t no place for a girl, specially
like her
The men refer to her in derogatory terms – a
chattel, a temptress, a sex object, “jail bait”
- She is viewed with mistrust by the men for
being “purty”- men on ranch both dislike
and lust after her
- The men are uneasy and evasive when she She deliberately ridicules Curley’s boxing skills;
tries to interact with them;
She is not named and she is the only woman on
the ranch and lonely;
- She insists her mother robbed her of a
glittering career “in the movies”
She is the victim of her own stupidity and she is
a victim of the times she lived in; • she is killed
by Lennie;
- Even in death she is spurned by Curley
Essay plan
Agree Disagree
She is trapped in a loveless marriage, finding no -She speaks disparagingly of her house and her
comfort in her husband or her home and home: “I tell you I ain’t used to livin’ like this”
declaring, “I don’t like Curley” -She has a dream to help her escape from the
reality of her life
She is afraid of Curley and speaks of him in a The way she dresses and is excessively made up
disgusted manner, “Swell guy, ain’t he?” is inappropriate for the surroundings, “rouged
She is also treated as a possession and lips.... heavily made up....cotton house dress
threatened by Curley and red mules.... bouquets of red ostrich
feathers”
She is left alone for long periods of time: “I get She married for entirely selfish reasons and she
awful lonely” but is not allowed to leave the is continuously dissatisfied and seeking a way
ranch out;
She is not allowed to talk to anyone because of -She is vicious, threatening and vindictive when
his jealousy: “... I can’t talk to nobody but dealing with Crooks
Curley. Else he gets mad.” -She deliberately flirts with the men: “leaned
Curley appears to have only a sexual interest in against the door frame so that her body was
her: “glove fulla Vaseline!” but he also goes to thrown forward”
Suzy’s place, disrespecting her
- She is stifled and frustrated on the ranch:
“Standin’ here talking to a bunch of bindle
stiffs – a nigger and a dum-dum and a lousy
old sheep – and likin’ it because they ain’t
nobody else”
- Curley shows no grief at her death – only -She is forever finding excuses to enter the
anger bunkhouse
- The men think “A ranch with a bunch of -She seems to deliberately avoid Curley
guys on it ain’t no place for a girl, specially
like her
The men refer to her in derogatory terms – a
chattel, a temptress, a sex object, “jail bait”
- She is viewed with mistrust by the men for
being “purty”- men on ranch both dislike
and lust after her
- The men are uneasy and evasive when she She deliberately ridicules Curley’s boxing skills;
tries to interact with them;
She is not named and she is the only woman on
the ranch and lonely;
- She insists her mother robbed her of a
glittering career “in the movies”
She is the victim of her own stupidity and she is
a victim of the times she lived in; • she is killed
by Lennie;
- Even in death she is spurned by Curley
