Curleys wife
In the Novella, “Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck is introduces Curly’s wife as a flirtatious character which is leading to his death by the way that she is behaving towards the individual character throughout the story. In the novella, she’s first introduced by Candy, the swapper, who describes her from his perspectives to George and Lennie .The evidence showing this when Candy says that she, “got the eye” in chapter three. This suggests us that she wants to have attention of people in the ranch by just looking for the people’s trouble in order to make her seem powerful and attractive. The phrase “got the eyes” is also suggesting us that she likes to flirt with other man which tells us that she doesn’t feel the love towards Candy. The reason that she doesn’t like Candy is because she didn’t receive a letter that she’s been to promise to be an actor, but she thought that her aunt was hiding the letter from her which caused her to leave her house. This shows us that she is very defensive about the things that actually were making her down. Also, this links to the fact that her anger made her to build defences on her tru personality which made her to behave differently towards people. She chooses to marry with boss’s son Candy to live in wealthy condition. The evidence showing this when Curlys wife says” soons he got back to Hollywood he was gonna write to me about it” to Lennie. This shows us that she is lonely character because she always looking for someone to share her dream and not to feel lonely. The evidence showing this when she says, “I aint doing harm you” This suggests us that she is desperate to have someone to tell her dream and avoid her loneliness which makes the reader to feel sorry for her, even though she always wants to cause trouble on the characters in order to have attention. She slightly comes across with jealousy when she sees Candy and Lennie in Crooks room, the reason of this is because she thought that Crooks gets more respect than her