Steinbeck
portrays Curley's wife as sexual, innocent, and dissatisfied, which often causes her to jeer at
the ranch hands.
Candy tellseven before he meets Curley's wife that she's a
"tart." When we see her, she is always wearing make-up and carefully dressed to look
attractive. When she accidentally comes acrossalone in the barn, we learn that
She wore her bright cotton dress and the mules with the red ostrich
feathers. Her face was made up and the little sausage curls were all in place.
The men often try not to look at her, because they don't want their
desire to show (she is the only woman on the ranch) and, therefore, get themselves into trouble
with Curley.
Curley's wife dissatisfaction emerges when she says to George,
Lennie, and Candy:
Think I dont like to talk to somebody
ever once in a while?
She says she doesn't like to sit
the house all the time, and that Curley's bragging about who he is going to fight bores her. She
tells Lennie that she can into the "pictures"...
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