The central theme of "Of Mice and Men" and "An Inspector Calls" written by John Steinbeck and JB Priestly. Their key theme is in "Of Mice and Men" and "An Inspector Calls" is socialism and capitalism. Two of the writers John Steinbeck and JB Priestly use female characters to illustrate how people take responsibility for each other and how they depict capitalism. In both novels, we see how both writers attempt to make readers think and explore socialism and capitalism throughout the novel. First, John Steinbeck, the author of “Of Mice and Men” In the 1930s, American women were treated and seen as women. prostitutes. Curley's wife is seen and is called a "pie" by Candy and the other ranch hands say the same things like "what a bum" and "she has the eye" by George and they say this because she always wears a shiny cotton. dress and mules with ostrich feathers; who declares that she wants attention; it depicts loneliness. John Steinbeck does not say the name of the writer Curley's wife and yet John Steinbeck has so much sympathy for her; The reason why John Steinbeck does not name Curley's wife is because John Steinbeck wants to create tension and change the atmosphere between the reader so that the author can wonder and think about Curley's wife if she is someone who wants to be with Curley and on the ranch or if she wants to be with someone else or somewhere else. Later, the reader begins to wonder if Curley is letting anyone on the ranch talk or if she is alone; loneliness is also described in "An Inspector Calls" by JB Priestly when Mrs Sybil Birling says (to Sheila) "when you are married you will realize that men who have important work to do sometimes have to devote all their time and their energy to their...... middle of paper ...... At the end of the novel, Mrs. Sybil Birling must discover the truth that she refused Eva Smith who needed urgent help and her daughter wants to marry a good man and Mrs Sybil Birling accepts no responsibility for Eva Smith's death Throughout JB Priestley's play it is clear that Shelia is one of the main characters because of the impact. and the role she plays initially portrays her as a beautiful young woman with a rather selfish and overconfident attitude. Thanks to her personality, Sheila is able to achieve everything she desires thanks to her father. When Inspector Goole explains what happened and how Eva Smith died, Sheila shows sympathy and we see how her characteristics change, this shows that she is materialistic, this shocked the audience reading the novel. . Throughout the novel we see Sheila transform into different types of characters..