Of Mice and Men-Chapter five response

In the novella, Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, Curley’s wife is depicted as many things and they are mostly bad, but did she deserve what happened to her?  Curley’s wife is often seen as the antagonist of the story because she is responsible for “killing” George and Lennie’s dream.  But, is she really the cause of this?  She was just looking for someone to reach out and talk to, because in the time of the book women were not treated as equals of men, and this is depicted throughout the book by John Steinbeck because he doesn’t even give her a name all anyone calls her is “Curley’s wife.”  She is treated like and outsider all she is “supposed to do” is stay at home and cook and clean and do everything for the man of house, but she never gets to be herself or do anything especially in the depression era.  This prompt can tie into the last prompt because maybe the reason she is jailbait and flirts with all the guys is because she is lonely something she has in common with Lennie, Crooks, and Candy.  She talks to Lennie and realizes that he is just a little kid in a big big body and she says this in this quote, “‘you’re nuts,’ she said. ‘But you’re a kinda nice fella.  Jus’ like a big baby.’”  And she lets him feel her hair and this leads to that and so on.  But, maybe she just needed someone to be there for her to pour her feelings into and understand her and that was exactly what Lennie did for her just like he did for Crooks.  But she never deserved what she got.  No one deserves that, especially just because she was a so called “tramp.”  So all in all Curley’s wife can be seen as a tramp a flirt or even jailbait, but she is still a loving caring human being and she just wants the “American Dream” and she knows she cant do it without being with a man.  So she flirts around and wears fancy clothes so she can try and get that dream.  But, she is mistreated and misunderstood and she tries to reach out and she is killed, now why would anyone deserve that?