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She is in the barn with Lennie, Candy and Crooks. This part of the story shows her at a time when she tries to show authority and anger. She begins to indicate her true feelings of loneliness. “Standin’ here talking to a bunch of bindle stiffs – a nigger an’ a dum-dum and a lousy ol’ sheep – an’ likin’ it because they ain’t nobody else.” Curley’s wife is put across as being a lonely and an ill-mannered being; nevertheless this is where her isolation is shown. As she is isolated, she is interacting with the people who are at the bottom of the social hierarchy, and allowing herself to be vulnerable, by displaying her resentment of her life to
