What Makes Curley's Wife Powerful

Curley's wife is perceived as a toy, an inexpensive object that is in possession with Curley. An object that he gets to control and does what he wants. All of the men on the ranch see her as a tramp, they believe she is out cause chaos and trouble among them. What she is hiding and they cannot see, is that she is just striving for attention and incredibly lonely. She needs someone to express her feelings and talk with. Curley’s wife missed her time, the time where she could have succeeded in life and made her dreams come true. She was promised a great future, but things went the other way. “Could’ve been in the movies, an’ had nice clothes”(Steinbeck 74). The letters that she wrote and then waited for never came, the future that was promised