Curleys Wife

Curleys wife is complex main character in john steinbecks novella of mice and men she is introduced at the beginning and ultimately causes the end of the novella her navity and flirtatiouness which will soon lead to her death by Lennie which means she is confused and scared by her forwardness and eventual unrest.

She is first introduced  by candy the swamper  who describes who describes her from his perspective to George and Lennie the fact that curleys wife is introduced through rumours means that the reader already has a biased opinion of curleys wife before she even enters the section candy mentions  that she “got the eye “ explaining  that she is flirtatious and immoral in that were hit with the fact that she flirts with other men immediately after it it started that she is married to curley already the reader has presented curley wife in a immoral way “tart” which strongly back the first appearance which follows shortly into to what happens.

The first time curleys wife is seen she is seen in the doorway of the bunk house asking the males within the bunck were is her husband which is soon potryed    in the play as a weak excuse to interact with the  boys within. Curlys wife seem to be wearing “red cotton house dress” also a mule decorated with “bouquets of ostrich feathers “ which is emphasssing her sexual presence as the color red significes a color of love and passion additionally the bouquest of ostrich feathers also descried as the color red on the insteps of the shoe would have cost a substancial amount at that time mice and men was st and that curelys wife not only the fact that she wears them on her feet but also in the middle the “dust bowl” expresses her desperate needs of attention as he is willing to possibly ruin her best shoes in order to entice the boys in the ranch despite the fact that she has a boyfriend.n