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- - - - 'crazy bastard'
      - 'What the hell are you lookin at you big bastard. get up on your feet. No son-of-a-bitch is gonna laugh at me.'
        
        from Curley, who knows about Lennie's handicap and thus views him as an easy target.
  - - - now this is just a n/gger talking. an' a back-busted n/gger at that
      - 'the n/ggers got a shotgun'
      - 'I could get you strung up faster than you can imagine, just from a scream'
  - - - Women were expected to stay in marriages, even if they were unhapy about them. the 1920's was the first tim a woman could even think about it being socially aceptable to get a divorce
        
        despit this, CW is still stuck with curley when she clearly indicates that she does not wish to be with him.
    - - 'Have you seen my wife?'
        
        aggressive line from curley, treating her as an object
        
        See patriarchy section
    - - Tart
      - Whore
- - - - Lennie fucking murders CW and the plan falls apart
  - - - didn't get the letter she was promised
        
        blamed the possibility of her mother stealing and destroying it instead of accepting that she just hadn't been accepted and had been lied to by the producer
        
        Consequently married Curley, unhappy about it
- - - - Publicly wears a glove with vasseline to show how much he has sex with her bc hes keeping his hand soft.
      - 'have you seen my wife?'
      - see discrimination section