How Does Steinbeck Present Curley's Wife

It was once said, “hopes and dreams are like teardrops in the rain, they get lost”. John Steinbeck introduces Of Mice and Men as a story about hopes and dreams, and how every person has a goal. Although the protagonists George and Lennie were given the spotlight, a young woman was almost never given the chance to mention her dreams despite all her efforts. Curley’s wife once had hopes and dreams, but they were altered in her past, leaving her with a shabby future. She tried attracting the men’s attention, but all they cared about was her beauty although she wanted them to notice her lonesome life with Curley. Since the decisions made for her in the past affected her future, she lost all hopes of having dreams because she was constantly put down. Since her hopes were destroyed because of her limits, her dreams were left non-existent in the

When she first enters the bunkhouse the men are assigned to dwell in, she is described with, “full, rouged lips and wide-spaced eyes, heavily made up…..hair hung in little rolled clusters”(31). Telling by the timeline of the story plot, her ostentatious appearance was presented during The Great Depression. Many men and women didn’t care much about their appearances, and only cared about getting through the Depression only. Curley’s wife didn’t seem to care much about the Depression as she did about her makeup when Steinbeck says, “heavily made up”(31). She’s willing to dress up with “red fingernails”(Page 31) and “hair hung in little rolled clusters”(31) as though she’s willing to find another husband in exchange of Curley. She never gets the attention she deserves, but catches the men’s attention because of the way she dresses up. Her grasp onto other men kept her distant from her husband. Curley’s wife finally revealed the truth about why she was always tried to get the attention of other men although she had a