Curley’s Wife Quotes

• “Well- she got the eye.”
• ‘Full, rouged lips and wide spaced eyes, heavily made up. Her fingernails were red. She wore a cotton house dress…’
• “ I wouldnt be living like this you bet.”
• ”Coulda been in the movies an’ had nice clothes… An’ I coulda sat in them big hotels, an‘ had pitchers took of me.”
• “Well you keep your place then, Nigger. I could get you strung up on a tree so easy it ain’t even funny”
• “You know what I can do to you if you open your trap?”
• “She’s a rattrap if I ever seen one”
• “Well, I think Curley’s married… a tart”
• ‘her body flopped like a fish. And then she was still, for Lennie has broken her neck.’ -(simile)
• ‘She put her hands behind her back and leaned against the doorframe so that her body was thrown forward’
• ‘She smiled archly and twitched her body’
• ‘It was very quiet in the barn. Curleys wife lay with a half covering of yellow hay. And the meanness and plannings and the discontent and the ache for attention were all gone from her face’
• ’She was very pretty and simple… Now her rouged cheeks and reddened lips made her seem alive and sleeping lightly’
• “Let go,” she cried” ‘she struggled violently under his hands. Her feet bartered on the hat and she writhed to be free’