How does Steinbeck use colour to describe Curley's Wife in Of Mice and men?

"Her fingernails were red. Her hair hung in little rolled clusters, like sausages. She wore a cotton house dress and red mules, on the insteps of which were little bouquets of red ostrich feathers."repetition of the adjective 'red'connotations of red as the colour of desire- portrays Curley's wife as promiscuous elongated description of her appearance creates a sense of objectification

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