Curley’s wife is motivated by desperation. Curley’s wife is in a situation where she cannot escape her life with Curley because she has nowhere to go and her dreams have been lost in her past. To the other workers at the ranch, Curley’s wife is frowned upon because flirts with all the other men and she is “married two weeks and got the eye”(Steinbeck 28). Curley’s wife takes these actions because she is lonely being the only woman on the ranch so she becomes desperate for the attention she does not get from her husband. The desperation for attention, in this case, makes everyone else’s impression of her bad. When Curley’s wife discriminates against Candy, Lennie, and Crooks when she says, “they left all the weak ones here”(77), she is desperate