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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6. I do not think that George is actually worried that the rest of teh men might think he was party to the killing. I believe that he wanted to slip back to the bunk house so that he could get something to help Lennie, like Carlson's gun. Earlier in the book, the author made a big deal about Carlson going out and shooting Candy's dog with his Luger. This passage has no purpose except to provide foreshadowing and the reader with the knowledge that the only gun available to the men besides the shotgun is Carlson's Luger. Also, when George discovers the body with Candy he says, "I think I knowed we'd never do her. He usta like to hear about it so much I got to thinking maybe we would." (Page 94) I am wondering if he means to kill Lennie himself before the other guys give him a cruel death.
2. Life is wiped from her face. The meanness, the attention seeking, the planning, and the discontent is gone there is just a empty body in its place. Nothing is more absolute than death and her death proves it. All the things that made up this sad women is wiped clean by Lennie's accident.
1. No, Curley's wife does not love her husband. She tells Lennie the only reason she married him was to get away from her own house and to prove something to her mom. I think she married him because everyone else had rejected her and this was the first time she had gotten her way with something. She does not even like Curley. She thinks that he is mean. I can tell that she does not love him because she regrets marrying him because it has held her back from carrying out her dreams as a movie star.
3) Curley's wife's name is not given because she is Curley's "property." It shows why the guys are so short with her; if her name was given it wouldn't seem as serious if another guy was talking to Curley's wife. The author foreshadows the trouble to come by stating over and over Curley's wife. It also shows how possesive Curley is of his wife.
1. Curly's wife is not really in love with her husband. She even says so in the book "I don't like Curly. He ain't a nice fella." I think she married him the the first place because she wanted to have a life and actually live other than with her parents. :Well, I wasn't gonna stay no place where I couldn't get nowhere or make something of myself.......So I married Curly." It is almost as if she almost felt forced to marry him to get a life of her own. Even though she does not love him, I think she will stick with him, at least for now because she knows that she can kind of have her own life with him.
5. I think the men will never reach their dream of "livin' off the fatta the lan'," at the rate they are goin at. They ran away from/got run out of Weed. First Lennie kills a mouse, then a puppy, and finally Curley's wife. He is on a killing spree. Now they have to leave the Salinas River Valley. This will probably go on and on, until they get killed or just give up.
2. The thing that was wiped from Curley's wife was life. This means that she is dead now. Her body is cold,her spirt is gone,she has no breath left in her body.
1. Curley's wife isn't really in love with her husband. She's always "lookin' for Curley" but she seems to only want to get away from him. She only married him in the first place to get away from her mother. She wanted to be away from the person who stopped her from realizing her dreams, yet she just imprisoned herself in a marriage. She says "I don't like Curley. He ain't a nice fella." She despises her husband, and wants nothing but to be away from him.
2. At the bottom of page 92, it says "...the meanness and the plannings and the discontent and the ache fore attention were all gone from her face." This shows that in death, all her thoughts and feelings are gone, and she returns to who she was before she had them. Since her life is over, she can no longer regret the things she hasn't done that she wished she had. I think that when she talks to Lennie about her problems, it foreshadows her death because essentially she talks about how her life was full of mistakes and accidents.
2. Curley's wife lay dead among the hay, the meanness and the plannings and the discontent and the ache for attention were all wiped from her face. All that is left is her pretty head and a hollow shell. Once her name changes from Curley's wife to the dead girl she becomes more pitiful, and all the things that she could have been no longer matter. Time stops for a moment and then moves on, leaving her sad and decorated self a simple, beautiful, and meaningless thing.
1. I would say that Curly's wife didn't really love hime. In the story she tells Lennie, the first person that she has told this to, that she doesn't like(italisized) Curly, and he's not a "nice fella." She tells Lennie that the only reason that she married him was so that he mother couldn't control he anymore. She explains to Lennie that she has had many opportunities in life such as leaving to be with some travelling show with some actor, and being in the "pitchers" but she never got the letter. She believed that her mother had taken the letter to keep her with her. Now she is in the barn alone with Lennie trying to flirt with him but he won't budge cause George told him not to talk to her or else he won't get to tend to the rabbits. Even though it seems that she doesn't really like Curly she could be jsut making the entire story up to get Lennie's attention and get him in trouble becuase in the story she stops her sad story and looks at Lennie to see if her story was impressing him. So she could be making up the entire story just to get with Lennie.
1. I do not believe that Curly's wife is truly in love with her husband. She flirts on numerous occassions with the workers and seems to avoid him all the time. I think she married him because she feels safe in a twisted way. She flirts behind his back but he is like a security blanket for her. If she carries it too far with someone, she would back off and he would threaten them.
3. The author had reason when not giving Curley's wife a name. Her lack of a name makes her seem less human. Her outward rudeness and bosiness also adds to this. She is referred to as "Curly's wife" it shows her attachment with her husband. I think that Curly loves his wife more than she loves him, so therefore the relationship is a little onesided.
5. I definetly don't think that the men will be able to reach their dream. With the death of Curley's wife and the consiquences that Lennie will face, I don't think that it will be possible because of all the drama that will take place. Lennie will have to flee and George of course will have to go with him, totally destroying their plan with Candy. As George said on page 94: "-I think I knowed from the very first. I think I knowed we'd never do her. He usta like to hear about it so much I got to thinking maybe we would."
3. I think that Curley's wife's name isn't given partly because of her mostly minor role in the book and the minor role women played in society. During the time that Of Mice and Men was written, women had little to no leverage over men. As a way to escape failure Curley's wife married Curley and trapped herself for a lifetime. In the marriage she lost all of her dreams and aspirations and has little to give representing the vagueness of her first name. While married to Curley's wife loses her identity and becomes more of a possession than a person.
3. I believe Curley's wife is not given in order to make her seem less human. If she had been given a name, the reader might connect to her, adn the author didn't want that effect. It needed to be clear that she was only on the ranch for her husband. She is also not given a name because it must be clear that she is a wife with "the eye."
3. The reason I think Curley's wife's name is not given is because back then, the wife's name really had no importance. Steinbeck used this "analogy" to show how it was back then. I also think her name wasn't used because she was only brought up every so often in the book. She never served an important part in the book until the end when she was killed. The author probably tried to make her seem not important so the reader wouldn't suspect her to be killed at the end.
3. I think Curley's wife's name isn't given to symbolize that who she actually is has little importance. The men always talk about how 'purty' she is and that she is a 'tart', but her actual personality is of little importance. She is Curley's property, and he has ownership of her, or so he wishes. In the book, when Lennie talks to her, it always refers to her as Curley's wife, and this shows the wrongness in what he's doing, because she belongs to CUrley.
5. I don't think the men will be able to reach the dream of owning their own farm. Everyone on the farm keeps telling the three men that anyone who has ever planned on owning their own land has failed. It is less likely to happen now more than before because Lennie did another "bad thing". From the start I don't think the men truly believed it would happen, they just kept telling themselves that so they would have something to look forward to.
3. Why do you think Curley’s wife’s name is not given?
I dont think that Curley's wife's name is mentioned in the text because it wasn't normal for woman back then to give out their names. They were usually seen as property. They didn't deserve to have their "own identity". Their husbands usually had full control over everything they did. I don't think this is right at all, but back then that's just how it was.
6. I think he is going to get Carlson's gun. That was one reason they had the whole deal with Carlson going out to shoot the dog;to show that Carlson had a gun. Also, you see George waying the options before he goes back for the gun. He asks whether Candy thinks Lennie will get locked up, and when Candy says he thinks he'll be lynched, George decides that just shooting him is better. He reasons with himself that Lennie deserves this because he did it "in meanness." The moment he makes this decision is when he tells Candy,"I ain't gonna let them hurt Lennie."
1. Curley's wife is obviously not in love with curley. She doesn't like to hang out with him and she goes around talking to all the other men. Curley is always looking for her and she avoids him. Curley just wants her to stay in the house but she gets bored and doesnt want to be there. I think she only married curley bacause she couldn't get a job and needed money and somewhere to live. she doesn't acctually love him at all.
4.) This passage mirrors George's violent rant from page 11. Then, however, the words were used in anger, as George berated Lennie with the ways he could have been living if not having to look after Lennie. Here, George repeats those same words, but now in resignation to an empty future. The contrast between the two scenes (first, George erupting in frustration and, later, sadly accepting the failure of his dreams) helps the reader infer the change in George's hopes and predict the actions of the character.
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