tension built up-of mice and men

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Describe with close reference to the text the way in which John Steinbeck builds up the dramatic tension in chapter 5 from the beginning of the chapter to the part where Curley’s wife dead.

  There are a number of ways uses by John Steinbeck to builds up tension in Chapter 5 in Of Mice And Men.

  Depiction of Curley’s wife is the most important way Steinbeck uses to builds up dramatic tension.

Curley’s wife goes in the barn, and she then starts talk to Lennie:” Listen, all the guys got a horseshoe tenement goin’ out. It’s only about four o’clock, none of them guys is goin’ to leave that tenement. Why can’t I talk to you?” Steinbeck uses curley’s wife to tells us that all the other men are playing cards because it emphasis that everyone is away, it is also the first time that we see Lennie on his own. And the reader senses that something tragic is about to ensue.

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  Lennie doesn’t understand things, a person can say almost anything to him. Unfortunately Curley’s wife fails to see the danger in Lennie, and her attempt to console him for the loss of his puppy by letting him stroke her hair leads to her tragic death. After she lies lifeless on the hay, Steinbeck writes that all the marks of an unhappy life have disappeared from her face, leaving her looking “pretty and simple sweet and young.” The novel has spent considerable time maligning women, and much has been made of their troublesome and seductive natures. It is disturbing, then, ...

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