it’s making others feel hostile or on-edge to almost begging people to listen and pay attention to her. Overall, Curley’s wife is a flat, sympathetic character, representing women’s roles and loneliness of that time period.
Curley’s wife is first addressed with a warning from the old man of the ranch, Candy, to the newcomer, George. She’s told to have “-the eye-” and is called “-a tart” (28). When George first meets her, he’s brusque and short with his words; the reader can interpret why because…
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