Blog for Week 4/20/15

Prompt: Describe the atmosphere of the ranch and bunkhouse. Be sure to include characteristics of different characters that were formally or informally introduced to us in this chapter. Support your choice with textual evidence and interpretation.  Why doesn't Curley's wife have a name?   What message, if anything, is John Steinbeck  trying to send by not giving her a first name?  Support your choice with textual evidence and interpretation.

           The atmosphere of the bunkhouse and ranch is usually negative. Mostly because Curley doesn't seem to like George and Lennie. George and Lennie seem to dislike Curley a lot too. In the book Of Mice and Men, Curley says that he does not like big men. I think this goes to Lennie as a bad thing since he is big. I think more into the book their will be more problems between them. Some of the characters are suspicious of them because they think George is going to take away the money that Lennie earns from working. The people in the ranch seem like they are always arguing. 

           I think Curley's wife doesn't have a name because of the time period they are in. In this time period women were not treated very well. Since she doesn't have a name, maybe Curley wants everyone to know that they are married and together. In the book the characters call Curley's wife some mean names. Showing that women didn't have the same respect they had for men.

          I think the message John Steinbeck is trying to send out about Curley's wife not having a name is to make the story more realistic. In this time period there was discrimination between men and women. If they treated Curley's wife like she was gold, it wouldn't make sense. In that time period women were called the names they said in the book. It would be more realistic if the characters acted and thought this way about her in the book.

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