Curley’s wife is introduced through Candy’s description. What inferences can you make about her marriage to Curley? Use examples from the text.

We can infer that anybody married to Curley would be unhappy. Curley has a major case of "small guy complex"; he is perpetually angry. He hates the fact that he is small and tries to compensate by picking on people. Candy suggests that the relationship between the two is abusive. he wears a “glove fulla Vaseline” on one hand because “he's keepin' that hand soft for his wife.”