How does Steinbeck present Curley’s wife and women of the 1930s?

17 November 2021
1. Match the ‘Of Mice and Men’ colloquialisms with their meanings.

Coyote False information

Challenge
A woman who will get a What can we infer about
Bum steer Curley’s Wife from this
man into trouble
quote?
Canned George cut the cards
Sacked/fired
again and put out a
solitaire lay, slowly and
Grey-backs Hanged by a mob before deliberately.
trial “Purty?” he asked
Jail- bait casually.
Lice “Yeah. Purty... but---”
George studied his cards.
Lynched
Tramps/hobos “But what?”
“Well—She got the eye.”
Stiffs (pg.31).
A wolf-like wild dog
 How does Steinbeck present Curley’s wife and women of the 1930s?

17 November 2021
1. Match the ‘Of Mice and Men’ colloquialisms with their meanings.

Coyote A wolf-like wild dog

Challenge
False information What can we infer about
Bum steer Curley’s Wife from this
Sacked/fired quotation?
Canned George cut the cards
again and put out a
Lice solitaire lay, slowly and
Grey-backs deliberately.
A woman who will get a “Purty?” he asked
Jail- bait man into trouble casually.
“Yeah. Purty... but---”
Hanged by a mob before George studied his cards.
Lynched
trial “But what?”
“Well—She got the eye.”
Stiffs (pg.31).
Tramps/hobos
 How does Steinbeck present Curley’s wife and women of the 1930s?

17 November 2021
Challenge
What does it
What can we infer about
mean that George The use of ‘but’
Curley’s Wife from this
asks first whether implies that Curley’s
quotation?
she is good wife ‘having the eye’ is
George cut the cards
looking? a negative thing.
again and put out a
solitaire lay, slowly and
deliberately.
“Purty?” he asked
casually.
“Yeah. Purty... but---”
“She got the eye.”
George studied his cards.
She has an interest
“But what?”
in men other than her
“Well—She got the eye.”
husband.
(pg.31).