Curley

Question 1

name the quotes to describe Curley

Answer 1

• ‘Curley’s rage exploded’
• ‘Curley was balanced and poised’
• ‘He worked himself into a fury’
• ‘Glove fulla Vaseline’
• ‘Keepin’ that hand soft for his wife’
• ‘Wears high heeled boots’
• ‘Pugnacious’

Question 2

Analyse:
‘Curley’s rage exploded’
‘Curley was balanced and poised’
‘He worked himself into a fury’

Answer 2

• Anger is his dominant emotion, Sadness and grief is secondary
  – relationship lacked love and mutual respect
• Brutal and Ruthless
• suggests he enjoys fighting or uses it to assert control.

Context
- patriarchal society - how woman were marginalised by men
- treatment of woman

Question 3

Analyse:
‘Glove fulla Vaseline’
‘Keepin’ that hand soft for his wife’

Answer 3

Glove serves as a visual warning to the other ranch workers – possessive, insecure
- Very demanding
- Thinks very highly of himself
- Insecure about his status
- Curley is ridiculed, suggesting insecurity beneath his tough image.

**Context **
patriarchal society – exploration and misuse of power of those at the top of the hierarchy
Treatment of woman - She’s objectified and it shows lack of respect

Question 4

Analyse:
‘Wears high heeled boots’
‘Pugnacious’
‘Curley’s like a lot of little guys. He hates big guys’

Answer 4

• represents capitalist ideas and the capitalist system during the great depression
• Desires a physical power imbalance as he wants to obtain power over others
• eager to argue as he is insecure about his status

Context
- great depression/wall street crash - many workers migrated west in search for work to fund their debts
- Napoleon complex - short man syndrome - he is aggressive to make up he his small stature