John Steinbeck, The author of the novel "Of Mice and Men", set the book during the Wall Street crash, where thousands of people lost or didn't know how much money they had. ... Candy means that even though Curley's wife has only been married two weeks, she is already flirting with other men as though she isn't married. ...
Steinbeck adds the small detail of "the door frame" to benefit the reader in noticing the significance of the frame and how Curley's wife is unnoticeable yet effectively trying to frame herself to allure the eyes of the men. ... Crooks' life-long battle with exclusion and loneliness has affected the way he acts toward the other men, leading him to even put up mental barriers in order to protect himself from further pain; Curley's wife reacts by pushing herself on the men, overdressing and flirting just to steal the work-hands' attention. ... It displays the desper...
The author, Steinbeck, shows us how every person can dream, and how every person has the right to dream. ... I could get you strung upon a tree so easy it ain't even funny" (39) This can also be a reflection on how Curley acts over his wife, which is not completely visible in the novel but we can deduce this by how angry Curley is all the time and how overprotective he is with her. ... We also get an insight of how lonely she is in this scene "Think I don't like to talk to somebody ever' once in a while?... Curley's wife is also excluded from the company of other ...
