Curley's Wife Quotes

• Curley's Wife

  - Description: "red" referrers to promiscuity and is a sexual colour

  "A girl...heavily made up"

  "Fingernails were red"

  "Rouged lips"
• Curley's Wife

  - Dream

  "He says he was gonna put me in the movies"
• Curley's Wife

  - Description of her death

  "Flopped like a fish on a line"
• Curley's Wife (about Lennie)

  - Everyone gets on with Lennie: too stupid to have hatred for someone

  "You're nuts, but you're a kinda nice fella. Jus' like a big baby."
• Curley's Wife

  - Loneliness

  "I never get to talk to no-body, I get awful lonely"

  
  

  "I can't talk to nobody but Curley, else he gets mad"

  
  

  "Think I don't like to talk to somebody ever' once in a while? Think I like to stick to that house alla time?"
• Curley's Wife

  - Demonstrates her power of being a white female

  "You know what I can do to you if you open your trap?"

  
  

  "I could get you strung up on a tree so easy it ain't even funny"
• Curley's wife

  - Prejudice, Description

  'Jail bait'

  'Rat trap'

  'Tart'

  'Poison'

  "Got the eye"
• Curly's wife

  - Loneliness in the Harness room

  "a niger a dum-dum and a lousy ol' sheep - an likin it because they ain't nobody else"
• Curley's wife's entrance.


  "The rectangle of sunshine in the doorway was cut off"
• Curley's Wife on loneliness.

  "why can't I talk to you? I never get to talk to nobody. I get awful lonely."
• Curley's wife on her relationship with Curley


  "I don't like Curley. He ain't a nice fella."
• Curley's Wife

  - Loneliness


  "I never get to talk to no-body, I get awful lonely"

  
  

  "I can't talk to nobody but Curley, else he gets mad"

  
  

  "Think I don't like to talk to somebody ever' once in a while? Think I like to stick to that house alla time?"
• Curley's Wife

  - Demonstrates her power of being a white female

  "You know what I can do to you if you open your trap?"

  
  

  "I could get you strung up on a tree so easy it ain't even funny"