Of Mice and Men:Themes

“Stay away from her Lennie, she aint nothing but trouble”. “Why does no one ever talk to me”? Promiscuous, lonely, wrapped around Curley’s finger, and is given no name. Curley’s wife is a miss-interpreted character in the book of mice and men. She always seems to want attention, the only one on the farm who wears a dress and high heels, hair always done, but is that all apart of her game. Curley’s wife is a human predator in her own way. She is a human predator towards three main characters, Lennie, George and Curley.

Big, Okie, and mentally ill all describes one character in the book, Lennie. When the Curley’s wife was first introduced to the book and movie she attacked Lennie and George. Lennie was told by George to stay away from Curley’s wife because she was not anything but trouble. Well one day she seen Lennie over there with George all scared up, but before then she must have seen her husband’s hand. She asked Lennie what happened then she followed up by saying she knew. Since then she started coming after Lennie, not in a promiscuous way but in a way to get back at her husband. Then later on she noticed Lennie was slow she some how brain washed him into talking to her because she was lonely. She described him as a little baby, she then convinced him to touch her hair but then he killed her!

Smart, care keeper, and a hard worker; well this describes one character by the name of George. He’s the guy responsible for Lennie, he got him a job, tells him what and whatnot to do. As the author and producer of the book and movie made her seem as if Curley’s wife wanted George for sexual reasons. He was the first person she came at. Looking at him and talking to him in a promiscuous, way, as if she wanted to do some things to him. He never responded to her or fell in her trap. She never got close to getting him. She made it seem like she just wanted to talk but her actions described differently!

Getting married to someone you don’t like is not the best thing. Curley’s wife married Curley. Curley is a low self-esteem type o guy he hates big people because he wants to be big. Well Curley’s wife does not like him so she tries to find out anything or do anything to get t him. She tried to kick him. She tried to figure out did Lennie really do that to Curley’s hand all to get at her husband. Curley loves her but she does not love him. He messed up her dream!

To conclude this I will like to say Curley’s wife was a predator in her own way towards different people. She knows Lennie is slow so she use him to socialize with, George is handsome so she wants to seduce him and she just dislikes her husband.