English Final Exam~ Why doesn't Curley's wife have a name?

Of Mice And Men
By: John Steinbeck
Between The Line Question

I believe Curley’s wife doesn’t have a name because she represented all woman in the 1900’s. The only female in the area miles and miles away from any other female model. In the middle of a hundred men. Has big dreams and when they are crushed they have no choice but to marry and live life as is. “I lived right in Salinas,” she said. “Come there when I was a kid. Well, a show come through, an’ I met one of the actors. He says I could go with that show. But my ol’ lady wouldn’t let me. She says because I was only fifteen. But the guy says I coulda. If I’d went, I wouldn’t be living like this, you bet. Nother time I met a guy, an’ he was in pitchers. Went out to Riverside Dance Palace with him. He says he was gonna put me in the movies. Says I was a natural. Soon’s he got back to Hollywood he was gonna write to me about it. I never got that letter, “she said. “I always though my ol’ lady stole it. Well, I wasn’t gonna stay no place where I couldn’t get nowhere or make something of myself, an’ where they stole your letters. I ask her if she stole it, too, an’ she says no. So I married Curly. Met him out to the Riverside Dance Palace that same night.”