Curley's Wife

In section four, later on in the novel, Curley's wife also abuses her power as women against crooks by threatening him, "I could get you strung up on a tree so easy it ain't even funny."Curley's wife shows she felt unhappy as she has just come to speak as she is lonely. She then starts being rude to Crooks by calling him a “nigga” and she enjoys this authority she has over a man. As a result of the other men having authority over her because she's a woman, but Crooks is black so he's lower in society compared to Curley's wife. Also people with a low status in society make themselves fell better by targeting other people of a lower status. In section four when she comes in Crooks’ room, she isn’t wanted by the three underdogs (Lonnie, Candy and Crooks).

When Curley’s wife enters the room she victimises Lennie, Crooks and Candy straight away. “They left all the weak ones here”. She knows that she has more power on the ranch then these three men so she rapidly makes herself feel better by trying to show them that she’s not to be messed with. Curley’s wife is lonely “think I don’t like to talk to somebody ever once in a while”. However, she says this after just calling them “the weak ones”. This is not good for Curley’s wife, as if she always feels lonely and has no one to talk to, but who would want to talk to here if she’s just going to mock all of them.

She then goes on to talking about how Curley broke his wrist. She knows he didn’t catch it and really wants to find out who did it. Curley’s wife seems happy to find that someone stood up to Curley and gave him a beat in. “why, he aint give nobody the good ol’ one-two since he got his han bust”. This is covenant as throughout the novel we don’t really here about him having a fight and giving the “one-two to anyone else apart from Lonnie. We can imply from this that Curley and Curley’s wife isn’t a very good relationship and that he is potentially a wife better. This is significant as it would explain why