Being on a secluded farm with an overprotective and violent husband is her worst nightmare. She craves the spotlight and attention, but nobody will dare speak to her in fear of her husband. Without people telling her how perfect she is, she becomes violent and threatens people, specifically Crooks. She threatens him with lynching because he is the only Negro on the farm. Curley's wife is slowly going insane from the isolation that the farm brings.
It 's quite sad, really. Selling herself, she reminds him of her devotion, backseat antics and how the other women he may be entertaining would ignore him if he wasn 't successful. In a similar vein, on "Love Drought" she pouts "Tell me, what did I do wrong?... Am I not thirsty enough?... Spend my life in the dark for the sake of you and me...
When he hears this he tells his mother things such as “Are you speaking with that Battaglia strumpet ?” (Toole 300). Ignatius constantly becomes furious when he overhears his mother speak on the phone with Santa. Ignatius also completely detests his mother's romantic relationship with Claude
Orual’s selfish actions in ‘Till We Have Faces by C. S. Lewis makes her seem like an immoral person. She is extremely reliant on those she cares about to provide joy in her life, and she selfishly tears others away from their personal happiness to fuel her own. Though she claims she does so for the benefit of the others, she only causes more pain. However, in ‘Till We Have Faces by C. S. Lewis, Orual’s selfishness and possessiveness stems from the love she holds for those in her life, therefore readers can sympathize with her and the consequences of her actions are mitigated.
When the entire town doesn't exactly accept you that causes a feeling of seclusion and hatred of those around you. Abigail's view of the people around her is negative so she has no regrets when it comes to making them pay for how they had treated her. The way that people are treated causes them to make their own assumptions about the world and how they want to interact with those in
This relates back to the fact that she was dehumanized by society’s warped vision of gender roles. It’s also a good metaphor for her general character and its representation. To conclude, Curley’s wife in the 1937 novel Of Mice & Men is an accurate portrayal of the sexism during the ‘30s. She was mistreated by her husband, dehumanized, and forced into a life she never wanted.
The fact that he has no one to communicate with causes him to be helpless and miserable. While observing a family of cottagers, he begins to “admire[] [their] perfect forms”(find page). After studying them for a while he plans to meet them, which shows his desire to connect with humans. *** Another archetype for The Wretch is the Evil Figure with Ultimately Good Heart. Normally this archetypal character would end up being “good” because the hero would save him from evil.
For example, when she said, “And if I do it you will be happy, and things will be like they were.” (255), she is lonely and desperate girl who is still having hope of being happy. She is in a bad mood and depressed too much to even ready to die, it is obvious from her reply, “I don’t care about me” (255) multiple times, waiting for him to say nice words or even make her feel good. He seems as being selfish and careless by starting this relationship and then lacking the support Jig needs from him. Hills Like White Elephant has a huge description on the story’s sitting in the train station, surrounded with hills, fields, and tress in a valley in Spain.
Is it wrong or right to kill promiscuous girls? Should someone who is M.R. be punished or blamed for doing something bad? Of mice and men a novella written by John Steinbeck is full of mishaps and drama. George a small town smart guy is taking care of mentally handicapped named Lenny that gets mixed up in a mess with Curley’s wife who’s a tart and has bad intentions. Curley’s wife is a responsible for her death she is provoking the men, she seeks attention, and she always puts herself in bad situations.
Elizabeth Bennet has a incredibly strong, and bold personality, unlike her sister, Jane, and not afraid to speak her mind truthfully, which she always does. Since the beginning, Elizabeth and Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy have been in conflict. He did not fancy dancing with her since he thought of her as a person from a lower class, and not up to par. When Elizabeth had found out about what he really thought of her, she despised him, and everyone felt so too. They all thought that he was the most un-agreeable man.
In the novella of Mice And Men, although the men on the ranch are threatened by and hate Curley’s Wife, she is actually harmless and treated unfairly by them. Furthermore, George is assuming that because she comes across as a flirt she is a woman who will get men into trouble. According to george, “I seen ‘em poison before, but I seen no piece of jailbait worse than her. You leave her be.”
Flirting is like a game of chess, one wrong move and it is all over. Just like Curley’s wife who does not really think through what she is getting into. In this novel, Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck; Curley’s wife has really beautiful looks and wears makeup and at the ranch she is always causing trouble. She is an outcast in the ranch, and she is desperate to get attention.