How Does Steinbeck Present Curley's Wife In Chapter 4

I think the author includes chapter 4 to give the characters some depth, maybe foreshadow, and give us some philosophy for the time.
It shows us how Lennie gets worked up, and calms down very simply, almost like a switch. Seen when Crooks is messing with him, telling him that George will never come back. Then we see how easily he’s talked down from his state of rage by being told that of course George is coming back. This chapter also gives us a more detailed profile of Crooks. How he has the room in the same barn as the horses, and there’s poop right outside of his window. How he thinks white people shouldn’t be allowed in his quarters because he isn’t allowed in theirs. The chapter shows us how Crooks thinks every guy needs another guy to talk to, which …show more content…
We also see Curley’s wife in this chapter, we find out that she doesn’t really like Curley, but married him because her plans for Hollywood didn’t work out so well. It can be seen that she has a very high and mighty attitude, calling the men low-lifes, Crooks the n-word, and threatening to get him lynched because he spoke up. She complains about her marriage to Curley, telling us about how all he does is talk about fighting, and beating people up. She asks what happened to Curley’s hand, they tell her it got caught in a machine. She notices the bruises on Lennie’s face and quickly figures out there must have been a fight between the two, and thanks him for it. George then gets home from Suzy’s brothel, after Curley’s wife had upset everyone, Crooks tells him that he didn’t mind them coming in because they are pretty nice. Candy starts to talk to George about how they can make some money off the rabbits, George yells at him and tells him that he wasn’t supposed to tell anyone. At the end of the chapter, as they are leaving the barn to go back to the bunkhouse Crooks tells Candy