Curley's characterisation

One of the most memorable characters in this book is probably
Curley. The first impression we get of him is when he came into the
bunk-house. An image of a young, self-confident man, who doesn't
really care about politeness. He asked: 'Seen my old man?' It seems
that he doesn't show respect in front of other people for this man,
who is actually his father. Also in general he treats other people like
he is better than them. He is bad tempered and often provocates
fights to show that he isn't weaker just because of his small height.
Especially with the big guys he has problems. Lennie didn't deserve
Curleys loathing. The only reason for being treated badly was his
physical superiority.
Curley is always jealous, often of Lennie and Slim. And also apart
from them he always finds someone to envy. It's like he is just waiting
for a chance to have to pick a bone with someone and all the time
he has to control where his wife or Slim is. Whatever you do he's
always looking for your faults. Yes, Curley has many faces. Another
one which is a cause of his jealousy is his possessiveness. Whenever
he catches his wife with Slim or another guy he completely loses his
already limited composure. Because he really is a restless person
who gets blind of anger so many times like little children do. When
something doesn't go their way they start to scream and throw a
temper tantrum.
Curley is not over-protective of his wife because he wants to take
care of her. He doesn't see her as a independent person instead she
is his possession. She doesn't even deserve a name, she is just
known as 'Curleys wife'. Her death finally showed us his indifference
towards her. The first reaction of him was not a sorrowful gesture for
her death but a scream of anger to this person who broke his 'toy'.
He only wanted to get his revenge.
But the most of his character traits come from the assumption of a
very low self-esteem. Another cause of this is the probably true
rumor of his infertility.
All in all he is very one dimensional, that means he doesn't have much
character depth. Through the whole book there is no character
development and we see just one side of him. In this book he definitely has the bad-man-role on which you can focus on different aspects concerning his faces.

Meryem, Timna