Curley's Wife=============At the beginning, Curley's wife is described to the reader through comments from the men of the ranch. Candy tells Lennie and George when he first meets them that she has "drawn attention" to the men at the ranch, even though she has only been married to Curley for two weeks. Candy thinks she's "a tart." We first meet Curley's wife when she enters the dormitory, when Lennie and George are there. She is apparently looking for Curley but she already knows that new men have arrived. Steinbeck gives a detailed description of her as she stands outside the dormitory door and talks to Lennie and George. She is “heavily made-up”, with “well-painted lips” and red nails. Her body language is provocative as she positions herself in the doorway so that “her body is thrown forward.” She smiled “mischievously” and “twitched her body.” The general impression the reader gets is that of a young girl who is pretty and wants to attract the attention of men. George's reaction to Curley's wife, however, makes the reader understand that she poses a potential threat to both men. George sees her as “poison” and “jailbait”. He is angry at Lennie's admiration for her "she's pure" and fiercely tells him that he must stay away from her. “Don’t even look at that bitch.” Later, when we find out what happened in Weed, where Lennie scares a woman by fondling her dress and they are forced to flee town because of a lynching, we understand why George is so alarmed that she be the cause of more problems for them. Curley's wife's opinion is perplexed, he sees through her attractive appearance and just sees a girl who is also trying to get attention, but he still doesn't understand why she acts like... in the middle of a paper... only married Curley to get away from home. She met him at the Riverside Dance Palais, probably attracted to him because he was the son of a rancher. But now the reality is that she doesn't even like him. “He’s not a nice guy,” she confides to Lennie. When they talk together, she shows some kindness towards Lennie when she realizes that he understands little of what she says. After her death, Steinbeck shows us another side of Curley's wife. In death, “the malice, the schemes, the discontent and the need for attention” disappeared from his face. We see that she is just a young, pretty girl. Steinbeck's description of her corpse seems designed to make us see her as a victim of life. The best laid plans of the mice and------------ ------------------- gang of men in Agley's back . (Robert Burns)The best plans often go astray.