Curley's wife is the only woman on the ranch. She is married to Curley who is the Boss' son. She is always dressed up. She is first described as ' a girl with full rouged lips, red nails and her hair rolled.' She looks out of place in a society like this. Everyone else is hard working, so they are all wearing tattered clothes. We first encounter Curley's wife, the afternoon George and Lennie arrived at the Ranch. She came into the bunkhouse where George and Lennie were. and started to ask where Curley was. She then stood at...
condones Curley's wife in the novel, he mainly does this in his letter. It says that 'she is a nice girl, not a floozy' this means that she does not flirt with everyone, she only does it because it is the only way she knows how to communicate with men. She would always be faithful to Curley and this is the one thing that everybody, including Curley got wrong about her. Steinbeck alters our opinion about her from bad to good in his letter. This proves that Steinbeck condones Curley's wife in the novel 'Of Mice and Men.'