Curley's Wife Feels Lonely

In part 4 in Of Mice and Men, Curley's wife shows how she feels being on the ranch for the first time. We can clearly see that Curley's wife feels lonely, with the following evidence and thoughts, "'Any you boys seen Curley?'...'Think I don't know where they all went? Even Curley. I know where they all went.'...'Then if you know, why you want to ast us where Curley is at?'" (77). These quotes show that Curley's wife didn't really need to come into the barn because she already knew where Curley was. She was lonely and wanted some company, so she decided to use her same old excuse for the attention. She was then rude to Candy, Crooks, and Lennie by calling them weak and calling Candy's, George's, and Lennie's dream of having their own land baloney. She also called them bindle bums and bindle stiffs, along with other names. I think she may be rude to them and try to act tough because she doesn't want to believe that she feels the same loneliness that these "bindle stiffs" feel. She wants to think that she is in a higher place than they are, but deep inside, she knows that because she is a woman (and we know that women weren't thought as important and useful as men in this time period) who is not very respected. What she doesn't realize is that she could at least be thought of as classy or have a respectable trait, rather than have all of the guys on the ranch thinking that she is overly flirtatious (which is even worse when a person like her is married). She could try to just have a normal, friendly (not flirty) conversation with the others on the ranch without calling them rude names or showing herself off to the others. She might also flirt with others for attention too, because she feels lonely. Here, she proves my point that she feels lonely when she asks them, "'Think I don't like to talk to somebody ever' once in a while? Think I like to stick in that house alla time?'" (77). She is trying to explain to them that she is always in the house all of the time, most likely by herself because Curley is always working, and there are no other girls on the ranch to spend all of her free time with.