Of Mice and Men

When steinbeck describes the moments after Curley's wife's death,he uses personification. Cite an example of personification and explain the impact of its use in this section of the novel

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The quote goes as follows,

"She was very pretty and simple, and her face was sweet and young. Now her rouged cheeks and her reddened lips made her seem alive and sleeping very lightly. The curls, tiny little sausages, were spread on the hay behind her head,

and her lips were parted. "

The is the irony of Curley's wife being released from her torment through her murder. Her youth is personified as alive, more alive than when she was alive,

"And the meanness and the plannings and the discontent and the ache for

attention were all gone from her face."

The quote goes as follows,

"She was very pretty and simple, and her face was sweet and young. Now her rouged cheeks and her reddened lips made her seem alive and sleeping very lightly. The curls, tiny little sausages, were spread on the hay behind her head,

and her lips were parted. "

The is the irony of Curley's wife being released from her torment through her murder. Her youth is personified as alive, more alive than when she was alive,

"And the meanness and the plannings and the discontent and the ache for

attention were all gone from her face."

The quote goes as follows,

"She was very pretty and simple, and her face was sweet and young. Now her rouged cheeks and her reddened lips made her seem alive and sleeping very lightly. The curls, tiny little sausages, were spread on the hay behind her head,

and her lips were parted. "

The is the irony of Curley's wife being released from her torment through her murder. Her youth is personified as alive, more alive than when she was alive,

"And the meanness and the plannings and the discontent and the ache for

attention were all gone from her face."