Jack Martin's English Journal

During this period, many people were unemployed. The 1930’s was the decade of the depression. For most families, life was very hard. Lots of people had very little to eat or wear. they found clothing wherever they could and sometimes shared their space with another family or two and those families pooled their money to pay for utilities and food. Some families who had spare rooms rented those rooms out for extra income.

Men had very little respect for women and only thought of them as sexual objects so their wasn’t much family life, people lived more independently.

In this time period women were treated unfairly and thought of as sexual objects rather then equal people. The fact that Candy called Curley’s wife a tart implies this thought. Curley’s wife seems to live up to this stereotype made by the men. We realise this from the clothing which isn’t really suitable for a farm and the colour red she is wearing which normally symbolises love in a sexually way. She is also acting flirtatious in the boys presence

We haven’t been told Curley’s wife’s name because the author wants to display the superiority of the male over women.

Statement Mr Waugh made helping our understanding. Also, we don’t know her name because she is always presented as an object of the men’s speculation. Some of them view her as a ‘tart’, or ‘jailbait’ – but they all consider her to be Curley’s possession. This means that in their minds it makes sense that she doesn’t get to have a name of her own.

Language devices in poetry can significantly strengthen the poems meaning. In the poem futility the poet shows his mood and attitude change towards the personified sun between the two stanzas. Personification is when we give a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman. In the first stanza Wilfred Owen shows a positive, nice attitude