Curley's Wife's Loneliness

     Throughout Chapter 4 in Of Mice And Men by John Steinbeck, Curley's wife continues to demonstrate her loneliness and sadness in her marriage. I personally think that Curley's wife did not want to marry Curley. Maybe her forced her into marriage, maybe she needed his financial support in her life, or maybe her family forced her into marrying him. We may never know. Curley's wife is always looking for Curley, but she isn't really trying to find him. I think she is actually hiding from him. Throughout the book we've seen no interaction between them at all which we can guess means they may be avoiding each other. Curley's wife even goes into Crooks's room looking for Curley, but admits she knows where he is. She said, "'Think I don't know where they all went? Even Curley. I know where they all went "'(77), even though she just came in looking for Curley. Curley's wife obviously wanted some company with anybody she could find, even Crooks, Candy, and Lenny. She used her old excuse of looking for her husband in order to get want she wanted. Curley's wife wanting to spend time with other people shows how she isn't happy with her marriage. I predict that we finally will get to see Curley and his wife interact, but they probably won't bet the happy couple they want people to see them as. I have a feeling they will argue or fight about something reinforcing the idea that they probably don't want to be married to each other.

-Paige