Of mice and men- curleys wife quick analysis

Focus on characterisation
(1) select a character
(2) find a key quotation that you think sums up there character
(3) select one line of physical description that defines them in your mind
(4) find a quote by another character that adds to our understanding of your selected character
(5)speculate about what role this character has in the story ” what is their purpose in the story
My character, curleys wife.
2. “You know what I think?” George did not answer ” well I think curleys married… A tart,”
3. “She had full rouged lips and wide spaced eyes, heavily made up.”
4. George said ” Jesus what a tramp, that’s what Curley picks for a wife?
5. Curley’s wife’s purpose in the story is to show the treatment of women in the depression and how men thought of them. She is also another of Steinbecks methods for embodying loneliness.
Curleys wife is also one of the main means that Steinbeck uses pathos and irony to lead up to the ending of the book. With George constantly mentioning how she’s gonna “make a mess”.