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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 ...
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.”
7 maj 2019 · John Steinbeck’s 1937 classic Of Mice and Men was written with only one female character, Curley’s wife, who is portrayed as a villainess. She, however, is the product of her past and her ...
The novels To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, and Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, both portray woman as inferior during the Great Depression. Curley’s wife and Mayella Ewell represent the lonely, lost, and broken-down woman of the Great Depression. Unlike the many other women that “lived on hope,” these two literary figures did not ...
Steinbeck had presented his women characters as sophisticated modern women who are liberated and powerful in leading their lives, the reality in the world still maintains that women are at the secondary position in comparison to men.
30 sie 2020 · Her femininity is clear in the simple “cotton house dress” which doesn’t sound provocative but, to these lonely men, it is enough to call her a “tart”. For example, in chapter three, Whit comments to George “You’ll see plenty. She ain’t concealin’ nothing”. She wears “red mules” with “little bouquets of red ostrich feathers”.
Aside from wearisome wives, Of Mice and Men offers limited, rather misogynistic, descriptions of women who are either dead maternal figures or prostitutes. Despite Steinbeck’s rendering, Curley's wife emerges as a relatively complex and interesting character.
