Characterization: Curley's Wife in Of Mice And Men With colorful statements like "She had full, rouged lips and wide-spaced eyes, heavily made up. Her fingernails were red. Her hair hung in little rolled clusters, like sausages. She wore a cotton dress and red mules, on the insteps of which were little bouquets of red ostrich feathers" (John Steinbeck, 31), Curley's wife is one of the more vividly portrayed characters in Of Mice and Men. Although Steinbeck …showed first 75 words of 963 total…

…showed last 75 words of 963 total…lack of a name for her. She wasn't like the rest of the people on the ranch, with a name or nickname; she was referred to as 'Curley's Wife'. She stood out by the fact that she was the only woman on the ranch, she was the only one who dressed to impress, and she was the only person without a full name. She didn't belong and even if she had lived she never would.