Curleys Wife

Question 1

“They left all the weak ones here,” she said finally.”

Answer 1

Curley’s wife is calling Crooks, Lennie, and Candy weak because they didn’t go off to the whorehouse with the rest of the men… but here she is, too. She’s weak just by default—and all the ostrich-feather heels and pretty dresses she can wear doesn’t make her powerful it makes her “jail bait”

Question 2

“Coulda been in the movies and had nice clothes. All them nice clothes that they wear”

Answer 2

Past tense suggest she’s given up on her dream because she it’s got crushed and she knows it’s highly unlikely she’ll achieve it
Disappointed at her failure
Has materialistic desires