Curley's Wife

During Part 2, we met Curley's wife. Curley's wife was described as, "having full, rouged lips and wide-spaces eyes, heavily made up. Her fingernails were red. Her hair hung in little rolled clusters, like sausages. She wore a cotton house dress and red mules, on the insteps of which were little bouquets of red ostrich feathers... Her voice had a nasal, brittle quality." (31) She comes off as being very beautiful, but also very arrogant. I think they made her this way to show that Curley picked her just because of her looks and so he could use her. We learned about her when she came to George and Lennie asking if they had seen Curley. I think she was just trying to show off. I feel like she was in a way trying to show them how lucky Curley was and that George and Lennie should be jealous of him. I believe that Curley's wife is a decoy to put Lennie in a bad situation. Lennie, being very fascinated by her, could follow her or go along with whatever she says and does. I think Curley knows he can use his wife to get just about anything from Lennie.