Monday, April 3, 2017
Prompt #4
In Part 4 of Of Mice and Men we see Curley's Wife revealing that she's lonely like other men. Crooks is often pressured into not hanging out with the men because he was the only black man on the ranch and society said that white men and black men can't hang out together. He's the only man besides Curley and the boss that doesn't live with the rest of the men, instead he lives in a house near the barn. This is because back then, white men and black men weren't supposed to be equals or live with each other or even really hang out with each other. Curley's wife doesn't like that she doesn't really get to leave the house," After a pause Crooks said,' Maybe you better go along to your own house now. We don't want no trouble.' 'Well, I ain't giving you no trouble. Think I don't like to talk to ever' once in a while? Think I like to stick in that house alla time?' (77) Curley's wife doesn't have any other women on the ranch to talk to and the other men on the ranch don't want to talk to her because she'll try and flirt with them, then Curley will try and pick a fight with them.
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Dear Delaney,
ReplyDeleteI love the comparison, this entire piece was something that never came to my mind. Now that you pointed this out I realized how it was there... thanks for that :)