Curley’s wife begins to regret living on the ranch with Curley. She starts to regret living there because of the way they treat her. And also because she could be doing better in her life instead of sitting around being bored and only being able to associate with Curley. Curley’s wife states “ I tell you I aint used to livin’ like this, I coulda made somethin’ of myself.” (Steinbeck 88). They treat her wrong because in this novella they only calls her Curley’s wife they never called her by her name so no one will ever know what it was. She starts to wish that she would have lived somewhere else and became an actress. she says “ Well, a show come through, and’ I met one of the actors. He says I could go with that show. But my ol’ lady wouldn 't’