Character analysis

  To really know someones character is very difficult. Most people believe they know someone because of time and experience. Others believe that knowing a persons character only takes a matter of minutes. It takes a lifetime. For example, women who get married believe they know and trust their spouses. But their are many cases where women find out that their husbands have another life and family somewhere else. In other cases,women are being beaten or killed by the spouse they thought they knew and trusted. Curley's wife from "of mice and men" would also be a good example. The other characters in the book believe she is a whore and is nothing but trouble. Readers can interpret people in books better than people in everyday life.Curley's wife is a young woman who is lonely and didn't get what she wanted out of life.
 Curley's wife is just that, Curley's wife. She is and object to her husband. She is not allowed to talk to anybody other than Curley. Her life revolves around and is Curley's life. She is meant to live her days by herself."How would you like not talkin to nobody".
  The characters who live and work on the barn always did their best to avoid Curley's wife. She goes on each day doing absolutely nothing. The fact that the other characters view her as a whore makes perfect sense. She's bored,lonely, and is looking for attention. To go on each day having everybody trying to avoid you can drive someone crazy. She has to go out of her way to get people to look and acknolegdge her. Curley's wife is the only woman on the barn and practically has no life of her own.
  John Steinbeck makes his readers think. Curley's wife is the only character without a name. Throughout the entire book, readers are waiting to find out her name. But never do. After reading the book the reader starts to ask questions such as:why didn't she have a name. Steinbeck knew exactly what he was doing. Understanding the character was easier because she had no name. Curley's wife "coulda been in the movies" if it wasn't for Curley. Her life isn't anywhere near where she wanted it to be. She dreamed of being rich and famous. Which is the equivalent of friends and being looked and talked to. Her life was the opposite of
that.
  Curley's wife died just as she lived- alone. After she died people were more concerned about Lennie. Her husband didn't shed a tear and was more concerned about other things. She would just be remembered as Curley's wife by the other characters. Not as a lonely dreamer or a misunderstood girl. Her death can be seen as a blessing in disguise. Curley's wife can be free to be whoever she wants to be, no longer an item of someone else.