Friday, February 5, 2016
Section 4: American Dream and Curley's Wife
In section 4, Curley's wife entered Crooks room where Lennie, Candy, and Crooks were. We learned that Curley's wife was very mean to all people in Curley's room by calling them bad names. After her mean remarks Crooks branched into a tirade saying that he Lennie, George, and Candy all have a plan on leaving the ranch for new land and opportunities. "We got our own lan', an it's ours, an' we c,n go to it," said by Crooks. Curley's wife rebuffed that statement by saying, "I've seen to many of you guys." Later in the section Crooks told the people in his room that, "Jus' foolin. I wouldn't want to go no place like that." This shows authority in Curley's wife because she persuaded Crooks that it was an unrealistic plan to pursue. Curley's wife has know made her statement that she does not even like Curley. I expect her character to play a key roll in the enidng of our novel.
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I think that Curley's wife will be a black cloud following the hopes of Candy, George, and Lennie around. She tries to crush their spirits and discourages the. I feel that Lennie will be most affected because he is so mentally unstable. I expect Curley's wife to be prevalent in the rest of the book to try to diffuse the hopes of the men. It is stated that Lennie puts his head down in embarrassment, this shows that Lennie is possibly scared of Curley's wife or that he feels she has authority over him. It seems that Curley's wife feels she is high on the "totem pole" of the ranch. Also, I wonder why Steinbeck has not chosen to disclose her name in the book.
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