How Not to Gain Freedom over Your Parents : Curley’s Wife Marriage is a great mutual agreement of two people. It is expected by both of them to share their love. However sometimes things don’t go the way they should. In the story OMaM, Curley and his wife are a great example of marriage failures. Curley always acts as the owner of his wife and tells her what to do and where to be. Curley gets angry whenever he sees her wandering around the guys in the ranch. Curley’s wife, however , doesn’t like that, as she gets treated like a property. Even though Curley’s wife married Curley to gain her independence from her family, she still depends on somebody to live. Throughout the events of the story, Curley always harasses her and always tells her to go home. Curley’s wife is always around the guys with an excuse, in which she states that she is looking for Curley. However, she is only around boys for attention. She seeks adventure, which she really can’t get from Curley. Whenever Curley knows she’s not at home, he goes looking for her and asks the guys if she had been in the bunkhouse or if they had seen her around. Moreover, when he find his wife, he always acts bossy and makes her go home and sit there all day. All the guys know that if…show more content… She lived right in Salinas. As a child, she met one of the actors of a show. The actor told her that she could go with that show (88) but the offer was declined by her old lady, the reason being that she was only fifteen. This shows that she was not independent from her family and she couldn’t have a word in her life in that time. Furthermore, she explains how she met Curley, and tells Lennie that she met him in the dance and married him right away, so that she could use the marriage as an escape from her old lady. This never happens, as the reader sees throughout the story that Curley’s wife is always controlled by Curley, and has to obey his
