Read through the questions below and use them as your purpose while reading! While you are reading and/or when you finish chapter 5 (pages 84-98), answer one of the questions by making an inference. Answer the question in 4+ complete sentences. Jot down examples and/or lines from the text to support your answers. Begin your response with the question number. (Be sure to read through all questions and your classmates' responses!)
1. Is Curley's wife really in love with her husband? Why do you think she married him in the first place?
2. What is wiped from Curley’s wife’s face at the bottom of page 92? What does this mean?
3. Why do you think Curley’s wife’s name is not given?
4. What is the importance of the following quote from page 95?“I’ll work my month an’ I’ll take my fifty bucks an’ I’ll stay all night in some lousy cat house. Or I’ll set in some poolroom till every’body goes home. An’ then I’ll come back an’ work another month an’ I’ll have fifty bucks more.” (George)
5. Do you think the men will be able to reach their dream of owning a farm, tending to rabbits, and “livin’ off the fatta the lan’”?
6. Is George really worried that the rest of the men might think he was party to the killing or is there another reason he wants to slip back to the bunk house before the others discover the body?
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1. Curley's wife is not really in love with her husband. The reason she married him was so that she could get away from her mother and have a better chance of becoming a star. She randomly picked him at the dance club she went to. Curley's wife wanted to prove that she was capable of becoming a star and that she would recieve a letter from Hollywood. Sadly, the possibility of her dream was weakened when she married Curly and had to move onto a farm.
3. The author never chooses to give Curley's wife a name so that way you do not get too attached to her. Curleys wife could also have been many other types of things, it could have been a paticular rabbit that someone had a personal level with. The only reason its a person and not some other less prominate thing thats soft is that there is a more personal connection since it is a person. The fact that she died is less important since she has no name. Her dieing sets up possible death for Lennie as well, and George be very sad.
1. Curley's wife is not really in love with her husband. She even states this on page 89: "I don' like Curley. He ain't a nice fella." This obviously shows that she does not love him. The reason that she left him was to get away from her mother. "Well, I wasn't gonna stay no place where I couldn't get nowhere or make something of myself... So I married Curley. Met him out to the Riverside Dance Palace that same night." She just wanted to escape from the clutches of her mother.
From the beginning, I felt as if Curley's wife did not love Curley. From the way she acts around other men and how she talked about Curley in chapter four, it's hard to believe she has strong feelings for him. The story she tells on page eighty-eight proves her true feelings: "I ain't told this to nobody before . . . I don' like Curley. He ain't a nice fella.'"
Curley's wife married him for one simple reason: and escape. Her mother would not let her become an actress, and even after a long time of waiting, she couldn't catch her big break. So, she ran off from home and married Curly. I think she married Curly for an escape from her mother, but also out of spite; to show her mother she could lead her own life.
3. Curly's wife is never given a name in this book, she is always labeled as "Curly's wife." Partly, this is to portray that she belongs to Curly, which brings about the irony of her flirtatious mannerisms. It shows the danger in Lennie or George's association with her. Also, though, the absence of name is to keep the reader from getting attached to her as a person. In this story, Lennie is the one the reader is trying to get to know and the idea of him killing off another major character would not be reflecting his character in the right way. The reader is supposed to see that Lennie is childlike, believing in a dream coming true and always trying to do what he's told, but having others always get in the way and cause accidents. He's portrayed as a protagonist. By not giving Curly's wife a name, the author keeps Lennie as the misunderstood protagonist, and her as the person who once again caused unfortunate circumstances that led to more misunderstandings.
3. I think her names is not given because that way she looses a sense of self and individuality. the whole point is that she belongs to curley. she is trapped in his house and has to live by his rules. because of this i think steinbeck didn't give her any other name so as to identify as curley's property and not her own person.
6. I think that there are multiple reasons that George went back to the bunk house. A minor one is that he probably didnt want to be at the scene of the crime but more importantly there was something in the bunk house. Carlson's lugger was in the bunk house, and maybe George went to get the lugger, in case when they were out looking for Lennie and preparing to shoot him he would shoot them so that Lennie would be safe. Of course that would be risky, George going up against all of those guys, but ya never know.
5) After Candy tells Charlie and Lennie that he has money to help put towards their dream it seems very possible for the dream to become reality. However Lennie has a history of causing accidents and making trouble for himself. If he can stay out of trouble long enough for Charlie and himself to make the rest of the money and buy the land then yes it is very possible. However, i doubt Lennie will be able to stay out of trouble long enough given that everything he does wrong is accidental.
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Curley's wife was definetly not in love with Curley. She said "So i married Curley. Met him out to the Riverside Dance Place that same night." That night she was trying to leave her mother so she was looking for anyone, no matter if she liked them or not,to take her away. Then she proceded to say, "Well, I ain't told this to nobody before. Maybe I ought'n to. I don't like Curley. He ain't a nice fella" So this proves that not only does she not love Curley, she does not even like him.
4. The importance of the quote is that it shows that George has given up his dream. He is feeling defeated because Lenny has made another mistake and at the same time realizes that just like his dreams for Lenny, the dream to make something of his life is only a dream. George says what he does because he no longer has the drive to even try to support his dream with Lenny. He is done and has decided to only waste his money on himself.
4. The importance of the quote is that George has become like 'other guys'. Before, he and Lennie had each other, but now he knows they cannot continue as they have. He is addressing how before he saved his money for their goal, and now their goal is pointless. He has nothing left to save for, so he will just spend his money as it comes and live for each pay.
2. At the bottom of page 92 it says that "And the meanness and the plannings and the dicontent and the ache for attention were all gone from her face." It means that once she died finally hit a state of nirvana. She no longer had to worry about trying to become a star or about the jerk she chose for a husband. "...The ache for attention were all gone from her face." I understood this to mean that she no longer had to suffer from being alone and not being able to communicate with any one other Curley or the men on the farm, that did not want to talk to her because of the trouble that she would cause.
4) This qoute means that he is going to just live his life one month at a time. He is saying that he will get his fifty dollars, do what he wants with it, and when it's gone he will do it all over again. Even if that means sleeping cat house. He is saying that if he runs out of money for the things he needs its his own fault and he will just tough it out.
3) Curley's wife's name is not given to symbolize her unbreakable relation to him. She isn't an individual. She exists only in reference to him. By not giving her name, Steinbeck shows the reader that Curley's wife is simply that... Curley's wife.
3. The main reason i think that Curley's wife does not have a name in the story is because she probably won't be in the story for long. Usually, when a character's name is not given, it means that the reader should not get attached to them. Curley's wife not having a name then results to foreshadowing. If she has no name, something will most likely happen to her.
Curly's wife's name is not given to make it less personal. The workers see her as a tramp, and the author portrays her to be nothing but a flirtatious twisted version of a valley girl in that time period. When Lennie ends up killing Curley's wife, it seems less of a big deal because a name was never given. This is a great writing technique to keep attention away from the fact that he killed her and on the fact that he is a good natured person.
3) Curley's wife's name is not given so the reader does not feel as though this character has a great deal of meaning and so they do not grow attached.You get the sense that she is supossed to come off as a backstabbing, dishonest... female dog? And it works. I was sort of creeped out by her as she was trying to seduce? Lennie. Now i'm not saying she deserved to die, but the author did a good job of not giving her a name so that i didn't feel any personal connection to her from the start.
5. I don't think the men will reach their goal of getting a farm. I think that somewhere along the line something will go wrong. Lennie will do something similar to Weeds or George will get greedy and run off or something. In the end, I don't think this story will have a happy ending. It doesn't seem to follow the tone of the story.
3. In the time period this book was written women did not have rights. I believe they don't name Curley's wife's name because she is seen as his property. Once a girl is married they don't get to make decisions and they have to obey their husbands. Wife's don't have identities, they are degraded in society and live by their husbands values and principles.
Curly's wife does not seem to be really in love with him. She doesnt even seem to like him much at all, she just puts up with him. One reason she could have married curly would be to get away from her mother. Curly's wife thought that getting away from her mother would give her more opporunities to do what she wanted. This backfired and now she is stuck on a farm.
3. I believe that Curley's wife's name is not given because the author both doesn't want the reader to have as much sympathy for her death, and because she is seen mainly as property. Women in the time period of this novel were seen as possessions, and this is denoted in this book by the wife's lack of name. Her death is also meant to just be foreshadowing of events to come, and if she had a name or any more character details, then the reader would grow attached to her and sympathize with her death.
Curlys wife is not given a name because she is not supposed to be a main character. Even though she played a part in comunicating how dreams don't always come true, she is not a given a named beacuase people shouln't be attached to her. if she ws a main character people may start to dislike lennie for killing a major character. She is also not given a name and is refferd to as 'Curly's wife' because she is his property and it makes her flirtyness ironic.
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