Of Mice and Men – Isolation – Curley’s Wife

Curleys wife is the all female on the cattle ranch and is described in a very feminine and ill-matched manner, full, rouged lips and wide spaced eyes, intemperately constitute. Her fingernails were red. Her hair hung in minuscule trilled clusters, like sausages. She wore a cotton offer dress and red mules, on the insteps of which were little bouquets of red ostrich feathers. The bold, heavily made-up show matches her personality as she disguises her align feelings and emotions with lies like the colourful, interesting appearance disguises her lonely, set-apart life.As the only woman, she is segregated from the ranch society and Steinbeck makes her seem more single out and friendless by never big(p) her a name but being identified as Curleys possession. She is seen throughout the novella searching constantly for Curley all the same this is just an excuse to talk to the former(a) people, Im looking for Curley, she said, her articulatio had a nasal, brittle quality. She struggles to create friends or let alone have a civilised conversation with the men on the ranch.She uses this feminine appearance and flirtatious, predatory behaviour in an attempt to communicate and retract attention to herself. However this backfires and leaves her in a no-win situation as her heavily sexualised manner is the key point of reflection amongst the men as they describe her as a tart and a bite of jail bait who, if approached, will only lead to trouble as she jackpot ultimately cause the destruction of their protest versions of the American Dream. Her isolation throughout the novella is caused by her gender, sexual appearance and predatory behaviour.