Why Does Steinbeck Present The Character Of Curley's Wife

How does Steinbeck Present the Character of Curley’s Wife and Whether She is a Victim, Herself or a Villian or to Blame for the Unfortunate Outcome of the Storyline?
During the 1930s when Stienbeck wrote this novel the citizens of America were going through things like the Great Depression which was originally known as the Wall Street Crash. This made many businesses close down and made many people lose their jobs and have to try and find work, to do this they ended up travelling around and becoming what’s called “itinerant workers/ bindlestiffs” as Curley’s Wife calls them.
There is also something called the dust bowl which had a massive impact on the economic climate too, this means that many places within America was dry and there was
When the reader first gets introduced to Curley’s Wife we get a very prejudiced view of her because of Candy’s comments, “I think Curley married a…tart” shows exactly what he thinks of her and what Stienbeck wants the reader to think too. Candy also describes her as “she got the eye” meaning that even being married two weeks she already feels the need to look at other men. Candy then takes the attention that he got on her and describes who’s she has given the eye to for example, Slim, Carlson, etc. When men meet her they are already told this and they then become scared and wary of her because they don’t want to lose their jobs because her husband is the bosses son. All through the book she is called trouble because of the way she acts and behaves, which just solidifies the reason men call her
For example, the way that she threatens Crooks is where I begin to lose patience with her because he was just trying to get her away from his property because he knew she could get him fired and he just wanted her to realise that his room is not where she should be also because of the segregation and it being that they had to be in separate rooms and to not really talk to her, also this is something that she just doesn’t understand because she goes to talk to him anyway. She just thinks that he is trying to get rid of her and the way that he is always trying to tell her to go home and talk to her husband but they both know that her husband is in the “cathouse” not home she then tells them that she is “lonely” which they don’t care about because they have a dream and a possible ranch to go to when they are finished here also in them days if a lady said she was lonely they were expected to just go else where for attention. I also believe that she has some nice qualities, for example when she is talking to Lennie and she is talking on the same wavelength or level as him which can be seen as a kind of kinship between the two. I also think that she is kind of childlike because she wants the only thing that any child wants and that is attention, companionship and love which Lennie already gets from George but Curley’s Wife does not get that from anyone. This is the sort of behaviour