Thursday, December 12, 2013

What are some exact quotations that show curley's wife being considered a property instead of a person?

In Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, on
page 94 of my copy of the book, Curley's wife tells Lennie why George says Lennie
shouldn't talk to her:


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She said quietly, "He's scared Curley'll get
mad.  Well, Curley got his arm in a sling--an' if Curley gets tough, you can break his
other han'.  You didn't put nothing over on me about gettin' it caught in no
machine."



She adds a minute
or so later:


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"I get lonely," she said.  "You can talk to
people, but I can't talk to nobody but Curley.  Else he gets mad.  How'd you like not to
talk to anybody?"



Curely
treats his wife like she is a piece of property, like he owns her.  He limits what she
can do and who she can talk to--or at least he tries.  She is kept on the property and
told what to do.


Actually, however, the most important
quote and detail that shows Curley's wife is treated with disrespect is the fact that
readers have to refer to her as "Curley's wife," since she isn't even named in the
novel.

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