In the final part of
the novel Of Mice and Men, Lennie accidentally breaks the neck of
Curley's wife while innocently playing with her hair. As Steinbeck describes
how she
looks while lying
dead in the haystack, he makes some interesting remarks. "And the meanness
and the plannings and the discontent and the ache for attention were all
gone from her
face" (92). Now that she has passed
away, all of her bad qualities have disappeared. She now looks very pretty and
sweet, without any trace of how much
she strived for
attention. Also, she now looks much younger because her unhappiness and need
for lots of attention made her look much older.
I think that this is all very
ironic because now that she has been murdered,
she is no longer in an unhappy place. Her death actually saved her from the
dissatisfaction with her life with Curley. She is now free from her unhappy marriage and her
constant loneliness.
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