Curley's Wife

Question 1

Topics

Answer 1

• vulnerable
• appearance
• sexually provocative
• destructor of dream
• dream

Question 2

topic sentence for vulnerability

Answer 2

Steinbeck presents curley’s wife as vulnerable

Question 3

Quotations - vulnerability

Answer 3

‘girl’
‘cotton-house dress’
‘wide-spaced eyes’

Question 4

topic sentence for appearance

Answer 4

Steinbeck presents curley’s wife as attractive but fake

Question 5

quotations - appearance

Answer 5

'purty'
'heavily made-up'
'rouged lips'
'red mules'
'red ostrich feathers

Question 6

topic sentence for sexual provocativeness

Answer 6

Steinbeck presents curleys wife as sexually provocative

Question 7

quotations - sexual provocativeness

Answer 7

‘body thrown forward’
‘new fellas that just come’
‘nobody can’t blame a person for lookin’

Question 8

topic sentence for destruction

Answer 8

Steinbeck presents Curley’s wife as destructor of dream

Question 9

quotations - destruction

Answer 9

‘rectangle of sunshine in doorway was cut off’

Question 10

topic sentence for dream

Answer 10

Steinbeck shows that Curley’s wife will never accomplish her dream

Question 11

quotations for dream

Answer 11

‘nasal, brittle quality’
‘could of went with shows’
‘put her in pitchers’