How Does Steinbeck Present Curley's Wife Theme Of Loneliness

“I get lonely, she said. You can talk to people, but I can’t talk to nobody but Curley. Else he gets mad. How’d you like not to talk to anybody?” (87). Curley’s Wife is asking Lennie why he cannot talk to her, and displays how Curley’s Wife feels alone and isolated by being suppressed. Loneliness causes her to seek attention from others and eventually leading to her death. Not having a true self-identity is a result of Curley’s Wife loneliness, and why she has no name. Curley’s Wife has no self-identity instead Curley defines her identity, and this is a result of Curley’s lack of love, the workers’ attitude towards her, and the relationships and connections she desires.
Curley’s Wife and Curley don’t love each other, and as a result, Curley’s
Therefore, making her feel insufficient, impotent, ineffectual, unimportant, meaningless and segregated. Engaging in the farm is impossible for Curley’s Wife, since she does not have the relationships she desires. She expresses he frustration with her current situation when she says, “Think I’m gonna stay in that two-by-four house and listen to how Curley’s gonna lead with his left twict, and then bring in the ol’nright cross?” (78). Furthermore, suppressed by the time period she is inferior to men. Trying to rebuttal the suppression, she dresses in beautiful attire and wears makeup to enhance her beauty in hopes of grabbing someone’s attention and make Curley jealous. In fact, the author describes as, “Her face was heavily up. Her lips were slightly parted. She breathed strongly, as though she had been running” (77). Lennie finally notices her because of her beauty and kills her out of her greed to not be alone. Trying too hard to leave her loneliness behind that she forgets who she really is.
To conclude, Curley’s Wife has no self-identity because of her paucity of a relationship with Curley, and how the farm workers’ view her, and how they lack as relationships. Loneliness is a major aspect in Curley’s Wife’s life, so major that she perished lonesome. Possessiveness from Curley prevents Curley’s Wife from talking to the farm workers, which depicts her as trouble making other not want to talk to her. Finally, she does not achieve her desired real relationships, making her truly