Curley's Wife Character Analysis: Of Mice And Men

In section 4, Steinbeck presents Curley’s wife as lonely as she describes how she is ‘Standin’ here talkin’ to a bunch of bindle stiffs…an’ liking it because they ain’t nobody else.’ The pronoun ‘nobody’ indicates a sense of isolation and emphasises her empty life. Curley refused to let his wife out with the ranch workers so for someone to talk she came to people she would normally avoid under normal circumstances. However due to her lonesome life she results to communication with these outcasts. The fact that she refers to the men as ‘bindle stiffs’ implies she thinks she is superior to them, when in reality she has more in common with them than she might like to think. As she states ‘They left all the weak ones here’ it becomes clear to