Curley’s Wife “Of Mice and Men”

In Of Mice and Men, character symbolism lets the commentator let come in what action was like in the 1930s. Many of the characters portray a certain person that could have been sustenance in the 1930s. This book is about the adventures of ii men, George Milton and the mentally disabled Lennie Small.They were migrant workers who had to search for work during the peachy Depression. You picture the friendship between the two men, and how they care for each other and see to protect each other. Author John Steinbeck does a great cable of expressing character symbolism in the story.He shows how back then, the Ameri apprize dream was highly hard to accomplish because of The Great Depression, and unequal rights towards women and the mentally different. Curleys wife symbolizes how women were treated in the 1930s. In the 1930s women were treated as intentions.They had no rights or freedom. It was impossible for women to accomplish the American dream, because woman were place of a man, giving them no independence to be something other than a housewife.My first example on how Curleys wife was treated as an object is simply in her name, she doesnt have one. In the story Curleys wife is addressed as Curleys wife. You never find out her name. This gave her and all women a persona of worthlessness, that they were just put on the orb to be mistreated housewives and not have anywhere close to the selfsame(prenominal) opportunities as men. Since women didnt have many opportunities besides prostitution, Curleys wife didnt have much of an exciting life. When her husband Curley was not some she would get lonely.In this acknowledgment, Curleys wife expresses her loneliness, I get lonely, she said you can talk to people, precisely I cant talk to nobody but Curley, else he gets mad. Howd you like not to talk to nobody? (Steinbeck 87) Curleys wife says this quote when all the men went to town, including her husband.It shows that she spends all her time alone, in he r house as the men work in the fields. She is also not allowed to talk to anyone but her husband who spends all of this time in the fields, so she feels like she is living alone all her life.Many people dreamed for the American dream, especially Curleys wife. Curleys wife dreamed of being a highly salaried actress. In this quote Curleys wife is expressing her dream of being an actress,Coulda been in the movies, an had nice clothes An I coulda sat in them big hotels, an had pitchers took of me.When they had them previews I coulda went to them, an spoke in the radio, an it wouldnta cost me a cent because I was in the pitcher. Because this guys says I was a natural. (Steinbeck 88) Here she is dreaming of a better life than the one she has now.But because of the time period it was very hard for women to accomplish their dreams let alone be allowed to have them. In Of Mice and Men, character symbolism lets the reader see what life was like in the 1930s. Curleys wife symbolized the t ake aim of equality that women had in the time period that took place in the story.Women were property and objects. Steinbeck does a great job of symbolism of women through Curleys wife. He shows how back then, the American dream was extremely hard to accomplish because of The Great Depression, and unequal rights towards women and the mentally different.