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What I want to examine is the role of supposedly minor female characters who in fact deepen the reader's understanding of a work as a whole and thus enlarge the presumably narrowly confined roles of Steinbeck's female characters.
Thesis PDF Available. First Glacial, Then Crucial: A Contrastive Analysis of Female Characters in John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men and The Pearl. June 2023. DOI:...
This paper demonstrates how a critical reading of Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men reveals oppression on female character and unequal gender relationship. The paper attempts to examine...
The fact that the main female character in Of Mice and Men is referred to as either a “tart” or as “Curley’s wife” indicates that women in the 1930s setting in which the novel takes ...
30 kwi 2019 · Of Mice and Men oppression on female character and unequal gender relationship. The paper attempts to examine Curley’s wife with regard to feminist approach. Steinbeck has viewed only single female character in the novel as a devil incarnation, a symbolic Eve who burnt lives of men in paradise. The paper interprets the novel from Derrida’s
The only female character in the story, Curley’s wife is never given a name and is only mentioned in reference to her husband. The men on the farm refer to her as a “tramp,” a “tart,” and a “looloo.”
Sexism shaped relations in American society. Steinbeck demonstrates this in Of Mice and Men. Sexist attitudes to women. Before Curley’s wife is introduced in person, Steinbeck includes a conversation between the ranch workers where various derogatory things are said about her, for example, Candy calls her a “tart” (Candy, Section 2).
