Curleys Wife: Miss Dynamite or lonely victim? Essay

Throughout the set aside Steinbeck changes Curleys wife in different ways. He makes the reader tonicity hatred, sympathy, annoyance and love for Curleys wife. These different interpretations create an unusual smell for this instance. It is difficult to pinpoint virtuoso particular character that she is, as our opinions change regularly in the book. Since the commence of the book Curleys wife has come across very confident, lusty and bold. She puts on a confident, troubling image to start but as the book progresses she slowly reveals the unaccompanied, apprehensive woman she re exclusivelyy is.This image gets her in to a lot of trouble and makes her come across bad. She isnt wish by the farm-workers, and they treat her very badly. At the start of the book George refers to her as Jesus, what a tramp and no piece of jail bait worse than her, these comments show how she comes across to the new characters and how little respect she has on the farm. The power structure on the far m is one of the main problems through the book. It causes jealously, rivalry and trouble. Curleys wife status on the farm is right at the bottom.I feel that throughout the book shes invariably thriving to make headway some sort of status or level within the club on the farm. I think this because in the book when she asks what happened to Curleys eliminate and they dont tell her she calls them all names, Standin here talking to a bunch of bindle stiffs -a nigger an a dum-dum and a lousy ol sheep. This shows Curleys wife trying to grasp some sort of confidence by embarrassing the other characters. By calling them names she feels almost superior and special, which is what she continuously wants.Women are treated with very little respect and were never passable to men in this time. She belongs to Curley like an object or a possession. This is when her unaccompanied victim side of her shines through because she is treated so badly we feel sympathy and sadness for her. A good ex ample to show how women are treated in this day is by her name. In the book we always refer to her as Curleys wife and never know her existent name that shows how controlling and male-dominated the farm is towards women.At the point in the book where she dies our troubling/ solicitude-seeking hatred towards Curleys wife disappears as a beneficent and sad feeling takes its place. When she tries to break free of Lennie and squirms in his arms we feel a sudden sadness for her, although some people would say that she brought it on herself through her attention seeking ways, others would feel kind. Steinbeck changes the image very easy in this chapter, as we start to doubt our previous opinions on Curleys wife.In the chapter it says, And the meanness and the plannings and the discontent and the ache for attention were all gone from her face. She was very pretty and simple, and her face was sweet and young. This carry reveals a completely different side to Curleys wife and makes us think more deeply about our attitude towards her throughout the book. It quotes all the reasons we used to hate Curleys wife in the past and equality it with her now, laying peacefully on the hay.Steinbeck changes Curleys wife character a lot, which makes it hard to answer whether she is lack Dynamite or a lonely victim. I think that Steinbecks intentions were to make us feel sympathetic towards her but also to have a hidden hatred for her previous attention-seeking character. In conclusion, I think that this question of whether Curleys wife is Miss Dynamite or a lonely victim cannot be answered. Steinbeck changes the character too much throughout the book so that you can never pinpoint a true opinion.Only till the end do you realise a true sense of loneliness and sympathy, but go she was alive she was an annoying/ troubling character, which will always linger in our minds when we try to understand her image. Jemma Davis Show catch only The above preview is unformatted text This student written piece of work is one of numerous that can be found in our GCSE John Steinbeck section.