Curley’s Wife is hiding her real personality There are many to some people in the world that are afraid of showing who they really are, and their real personality, but yet this may block their dream/goal. However I don’t have this experience, it’s impossible to understand what curley’s wife is feeling unless you’ve had a personal encounter like this. In Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, is a perfect example of this because her real personality is to be actress on a stage, yet she’s trapped on a farm with someone she hates and tries to express herself as a tart to maybe get over the fact that she’ll never be in the big city. To give some background about Curley’s wife she is a young 15 year old girl who is married to the bosses son; Curley, and …show more content…
This is showing the audience that Curley’s wife is trying to show that she wants to be off the farm and on the stage with her unique clothing. This also shows how she doesn’t belong on a farm, or has any care of being on the farm, and wants to be gone.
Another way Steinbeck shows how Curley’s wife is hiding the real her by having her say “I tell you I ain’t used to livin’ like this. I coulda made somethin’ of myself” (34). This scene portrays her as a city girl wanting to make it big, and isn’t supposed to at the farm all alone. She comes out and says this is who she really is even though Curley’s wife has been hiding it, acting like a tart. She is shown as very emotionally unstable character.
Finally Curley’s wife got engaged and said to George and Lennie “I tell ya I could of went with shows. Not jus one neither” (102-103). Again stateing how badly she wants off the ranch, and what she could’ve been and wishes she would be. As the story go’s on all she thinks about is making it big and what it would’ve been like if she never met Curley at the dance, because she doesn’t even love him