Curley's Wife Analysis

of mice and men curlys wife curleys wifes dream is to get more attention and make people like her is hurt by her marriage to curley.
Curley's wife finds Lennie alone and tries to start a conversation. She asks what Lennie has covered in the hay and Lennie reveals his dead puppy ; she tells him not to worry about talking to her, that no one will notice because they're all playing horseshoes. Curley's wife continues talking to Lennie, who does not listen, telling him of how lonely she is and how she dislikes Curley and how she twice missed an opportunity to become an actress and live in Hollywood and wear nice clothes-her equivalent to Lennie and George's dream of the farm and the rabbits. Curley’s wife came around the end of the last stall. She came very quietly, so that Lennie didn’t see her. …show more content…
Her face was made-up and the little sausage curls were all in place. She was quite near to him before Lennie looked up and saw her. In a panic he shoveled hay over the puppy with his fingers. He looked sullenly up at her. She said, “What you got there, sonny boy?” Curley’s wife said angrily, “Don’t you think of nothing but rabbits?” “We gonna have a little place,” Lennie explained patiently. “We gonna have a house an’ a garden and a place for alfalfa, an’ that alfalfa is for the rabbit an I take a sack and get it all fulla alfalfa and then I take it to the rabbits.” She asked, “What makes you so nuts about rabbits? Curley’s wife moved away from him a little. “I think you’re nuts,” she said. “No I ain’t,” Lennie explained