Leah Richards English home due 26/04
Loneliness is an inescapable curse that affects every character in the novel, to what extent do you agree? Focus: curly
I believe that curly forces the feeling of loneliness onto his character, and refuses to at least try and make an effort to escape the “inescapable curse” of loneliness. In the play curly is very much segregated from the only means of company, which is the workers. He seems to come across and an unsociable, unapproachable and struggles to hold a conversation with another character, even with his own wife. This is portrayed in the first meeting of curly and George and Lennie, he approaches the pair with the completely wrong body language “he glanced coldly at Lennie then at George’’ this quote emphasises how socially awkward curly is, and that his idea of starting a conversation is to exert his status onto George and Lennie almost forcing them into conversation with him. The use of ‘’coldly’’ just highlights Curly’s envy towards the two man clearly witnessing them conversing and acknowledging their friendship, as well as this Steinbeck portrays this at how Curly uses the only tone he can convey of a bitter tone towards George and Lennie.
