Curley's Wife Theme Of Loneliness

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Curley’s Wife plays a major part to the theme of loneliness. She’s a woman who is always heavily made up, with her hair in sausage curls along with wearing clothes that isn’t fit for a ranch. Many of the characters in the novel would talk badly about her, calling her a tart, jail bait, and trouble maker. The only reason that she is talked badly about, is because she is always trying to flirt with any man in the ranch, and the men of the ranch don’t want any problems with Curly, they try to ignore her, but many of them take it the wrong way, she is only trying to find someone to talk to, because she is lonely up in the house, with Curley not even giving her any attention.

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