OMAM Part 4

In Part 4 of the book, I noticed Curley's wife having an alter ego when talking to the others and then talking to Lennie. She is discriminated against. Why is she playing on Lannie right now? What is so different? Maybe she wanted to pick on Lennie and see why he is so different. Maybe she decided to taunt him. After all, Lennie is a bit slower when talking and does whatever his brain tells him to. For example, when Crooks said, "S'pose George doesn't come back." Well for Lennie, he obviously wants George to come back, so he says, "No! George will come back. I know he will." Lennie tends to say whatever his brain tells him to. So now Curley's wife wants to play a little with him. She can tell that Lennie thinks she is a "looloo" and "purty." You can tell when her whole entire tone changes when she talks to Lennie. It's almost as if she's talking to a baby when she talks to him. It seems suspicious. She laughs with Lennie, and then all of the sudden she talks with scorn to Crooks. I don't like it. Poor Lennie, he falls for it every time.

Then, I also noticed the discrimination. Apparently now women are still above Negroes on the "power" line. So now on the very bottom I suspect it to be Crooks. When Curley's wife lashes out on the tree other men, she gets very mad. She goes on a tirade about how everyone else gets more rights and how she is ignored and is stuck to talk with the "weak links." Oddly enough, she is also technically a weak link. She says that they left the weak links here. That also includes her, right? They decided to leave her here. They could have taken her with them. Except they didn't, probably because she was a woman.

Then Candy lashed out. Candy decided that something had to be done about this rude lady. So he goes and says angrily, "I had enough. You ain't wanted here." Obviously this was different for Candy. After all, he is actually above the others because Lennie is disabled, Crooks is a Negro, and Curley's wife is a woman. Except what I'm getting at here is Curley's wife. Her answer is, "Baloney." She doesn't believe them when they tell her they were going to find some other land to live on. Most likely because she has seen many other men who have said the same thing, but they don't succeed. 

Back to the topic of discrimination. When Curley's wife then lashes out on Crooks, Crooks ducks back and hides. Then she threatened to hurt Crooks and Candy jumped in and said he would tell. Curley's wife doesn't care and says that she is at a higher level of authority than Candy, but she isn't. I actually conclude from Curley's wife that she was trying to pretend to have more authority than the rest of the people in Crook's barn when she doesn't.