Of Mice and Men Theme Essay

Of Mice and Men was an amazing book to read. It touched on everything that you look forward to in a book; the theme that I will be talking about will be the connection between Curley's wife and the men who live on the ranch. Curley's wife had a lot to do with everyone on the ranch, if she wasn't venting about how unhappy she was with her husband then she was talking about how she could have been an actress. In this essay I will tell you about the connection she had with Curley, Lennie, and George.


One of the most obvious connections that you could talk about would of course be the relationship between Curley and his wife. Curley is a rude and ignorant little man, who bosses everyone else around, just because he is the bosses’ son. Curley's wife is not happy and she is not ashamed to tell everyone. All Curley ever does is disrespect her whether it's to her face or behind her back. He even goes around talking about how he keeps a glove filled with Vaseline on for his wife. He tells her what to do when to do it and how to do it. She is surrounded by a bunch of men who treat her with a lot more respect than her husband ever did. Curley is always looking around the ranch for her, because he knows that the love and affection that she doesn't get from him she'll get from someone else, and in a way that is exactly what she is trying to do.



This brings me to my next connection, Curley's wife and George. George knows when to spot a woman that you need to stay away from, and when it came to Curley's wife, he knew just that. George tried to tell Lennie to stay away from her, and for the most part he did. Although George tried his best to avoid Curley's wife, she still came around and tired to approach him all the time. It was kind of like the more he avoided her the more interested she became, which led to more approaches. I think that Curley's wife was just lonely and she needed somebody to talk to.



Now in the end, there is one person that finally gives her the time of day, but it soon became tragic. Lennie, as I told you before is mentally impaired, he likes to pet rabbits, and dead mice and puppies, now he means no harm, but because of his disability, he doesn't really know his own strength, and he winds up killing the already alive animals after a while. Lennie means no harm, and when you really think about it neither does Curley's wife, but bad things still seem to follow them wherever they go. Now as I said before George told Lennie to stay away from Curley's wife and he did until, she came into the barn and started telling him her life story, after a while she asked him to rub her hair, because he likes soft things and her hair is soft. So one thing leads to another and he wounds up killing her. Now I personally think that this is no ones fault but, in the end if she would have just done what made her happy maybe none of this would have had to happen. Lennie lost her life thanks to her and she died at the hands of him.



So in the end Of Mice and Men was an amazing book to read. It had many themes to choose from, but I found this theme to be most interesting. Of Mice and Men, had everything from, mystery all the way to laughter. I would recommend this book to anyone and I am pretty sure that they would enjoy it.