Task: Write three paragraphs in the character of Curley's wife including:
How she came to be at the ranch in the first place
What she thinks about Curley and their marriage
How she feels as the only woman on a ranch full of men
What she thinks about the three characters she meets in the bunk house - Lennie, Candy and Crooks
What her hopes are for the future
Sarah:
Ever'body seems to think that I'm some sort of task or som'pin jus' cos I'm a woman. I ain't like that at all. I jus' like to talk to people sometimes. A girl gets awful lonely if she's lone all th' time. I know th' only reason none of the men like ta talk ta me is cos they're scared. Scared of Curley. I can't blame 'em, I wouldn't talk ta me if I was a work hand, but I wish they would. If people got ta know me they'd soon see I'm jus' another person like them. I'm jus' a girl. I'm not a bit o' Curley's property, I'm my own person. I have feelings like any man. Prob'ly more than most men cos I ain't afraid to say I'm lonely and such but most men wouldn't say so when it's obvious.
I know I shouldn't but I always blamed Curley for my life turning ou' the way it did. I know I coulda had a great life on stage, 'afore I met Curley and got married on the ranch. Life on the ranch ain't no place got a girl like me. I don't belong here. Curley don't love me, and I'll happily admit to myself that I don't love 'im either. I thought he was so amazin' when I met him. He seemed such a gentlemen, it was all jus' a image he gave off to stop me from realisin' that really he was jus' a thug.
It's funny, I called those three guys a n****r, a dum dum and a ol' sheo, but what about me? I called them bindlestiffs, but really all they are is different. Lennie with his low amounta brain cells. Crooks cos he's black and Candy cos of his stump. They're so like me. The lesser ones who no one understands. I di'nt mean ta have such a go at crooks like I did. I jus' flipped and he was the closest person ta shout at. I di'nt mean ta scare him or nothing, I jus' di'nt think. I don't think he was the only one I scared; that big kid Lennie looked scared too. I don't think he really knew want was going on, but he knew it wasn't good, and he knew it was me who he should be wary of.
Life on the ranch should be great for me, but it ain't. the people who ain't already too scared ta talk to me I manage to scare away myself. It ain't easy being a woman in the 1930's.
When was the last time I was called Sarah and not jus' Curley's wife?