Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck CURLEY’S WIFE – CHAPTER TWO – HER FIRST APPEARANCE

POINT QUOTATION COMMENT1.

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CURLEY’S WIFE

FIVE POINTS

5. George’s feelings about her and warnings to Lennie after she leaves and after Curley has been looking for

4. Why is she here in the men’s bunkhouse? Look carefully! Clues: what she claims/what Slim tells her/how she leaves.

2. Details of her appearance/make up/hair/choice of clothes/shoes.

2a. Why is she incongruous on a working ranch?

2b. What does her appearance suggest about her – the way that she is living as opposed

3a. Her provocative body language with George and Lennie?

3b. How does she talk to them?

1. Candy’s opinion of her shared with George before she enters. Is Steinbeck preparing and/or prejudicing the reader?

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck CURLEY’S WIFE – CHAPTER TWO – HER FIRST APPEARANCE

2.a

2b.

3a Her body language is deliberately provocative when she leans

3b

“so that her body was thrown forward,” this suggestive posture revealing her need to be noticed and admired by the men.

4.

5.

**Complete the grid with five (or more, if necessary for number 2) P.Q.C.s, each one based on the prompts and ideas from the spider diagram. 3a has been done for you as an example. Notice how it can be done succinctly and fluently in

one sentence.

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