What Is Curley's Role In Of Mice And Men

In all works of literature characters create and push the plot forward. They give the reader a sense of realness and relatability while reading. In Of Mice And Men, a book written by John Steinbeck, the characters and their traits play a very important role in the plot. Curley, the boss's son, is a very aggressive and unagreeable character. Curley often targets the main character in the book, Lennie Smalls in violent ways throughout the story because he's insecure about his own size. Curley proves himself to be rude and cruel by treating other characters, such as his own wife and Lennie in inhuman ways.

Curley is “a thin young man with a brown face, … brown eyes and a head of tightly curled hair” (26). He is known to be very small, which he seems to be very insecure

When “Curley burst into the room excitedly” (55) and demanded if any of the guys had seen his wife he immediately accused Slim of being with her because he had been in the barn for a while he “jumped out the door and banged it after him” (55). Later to find out that Slim was just fixing a horse's split hoof. While Curley isn’t a very good person he still has to deal with issues in his own life, Curley is a very jealous individual so when it comes to his wife he is very overprotective of her. Curley's wife said that she could have "been in the movies, [and] had nice clothes… [and that she could have] sat in them big hotels, [and] had [pictures taken] of [her] if it weren't for Curley (89). This overprotectiveness and jealousy takes away his control from his life. He is so worried about his wife talking to the other men on the farm that he cannot take the time to spend time and enjoy his wife's