How Steinbeck presents Curley's wife in "Of mice and men".

Curley’s wife still remains surprisingly calm after being told this but after some more pleading them they then start to mention her husband Curley and this is when she ‘flares up’.

Therefore this means Steinbeck is trying to tell us that it is some aspect of her marriage to Curley that she is unhappy with as this is shown by her sudden anger and frustration after hearing about her husband and her marriage, which is what triggers her fury towards Candy, Lennie and Crooks., her fury towards them is shown when she calls the 3 of them ‘’a nigger an’ a dum-dum and a lousy ol’ sheep’’.

Furthermore, the way she talks to Candy, Crooks and Lennie can also be thought as evidential towards the preconceptions of her being thought of as a ‘floozy’, for example during this confrontation Curley’s wife is portrayed as a monster. This is shown when we are told ‘Candy and Crooks were scowling down away from her eyes’. This means they didn’t want to look in her eyes because just like medusa (a monster) they thought they would be under her power and control if they looked into her eyes therefore this shows hhow they think of her as a monster, additionally, her ‘’hair hung in little rolled clusters like sausages’’ could just as easily be representative of the writhing serpents medusa has for hair thus her being thought of as a monster would make it further evident of her being thought of as a ‘floozy’ due to the same characteristics e.g. evil, manipulative and power over others, as Curleys wife’s power is her appearance within a ranch where she is the only woman.