Who Is To Blame For Curley's Wife

They start talking and she asks Lennie if she wants to feel her hair, for she claimed that it was soft. Lennie grabbed her hair and her words were verified. His grip grew tighter. He would not let go, for he was too panicked to do anything. She thrashes under his grip and when Lennie finally lets go, she is motionless on the ground (Steinbeck 91). Lennie had killed Curley’s wife by snapping her neck. Lennie did not mean to kill her, but his action of not letting go of her hair had caused the downfall of Curley’s wife. Curley’s wife dying caused Lennie to run away from the ranch and hide by a river. Lennie left, trying to avoid George. Lennie said, “I shouldn’t have did that. George’ll be mad” (Steinbeck 93). Lennie left the ranch after killing her, knowing how mad George would be, because they could get let go or killed when her corpse was found Lennie went to the Salinas River, where the story begins. George knew that he would be there, for he told Lennie to go there. George came to where Lennie was, and shot him in the back of the head by tricking Lennie. Lennie’s choice to run resulted in the downfall of himself, which was avoidable. He was going to be imprisoned in the ranch if he stayed; instead his actions meant impending death. Lennie not letting go of her resulted in the death of Lennie and Curley’s wife, due to the carelessness of Lennie.

Because Lennie is confused he grabs her hair and tries to make her stop yelling. But because Lennie does not know how to control his own strength, he squeezes Curley’s wife’s neck too hard and crushes her spine. Lennie then flees the ranch because Curley wants to kill him for what he did to his wife. So Lennie is not brutally murdered by Curley, George finds Lennie and, because he cannot get him out of trouble, shoots Lennie. Lennie’s uncontrollable strength and ignorance destroyed his, George and Candy’s dream

He was brought up by his aunt, Clara. When Clara died, George Small, Lennie’s best friend, took care of him, and they became partners. They found and lost jobs easily, because of Lennie’s enormously strength and his unstable mind. The last job they had before this ranch had ended miserably with Lennie and George fleeing from their Boss, because Lennie was accused of sexual assaulting one of the females. Lennie was seen going into the barn before the death of Curley’s wife, so it was clear that he killed Curley’s wife. Lennie ran from the barn right after the killing, but was eventually shot in the head by his own partner,

One reason why Curley’s wife should be blamed for her death is when she came into the bunkhouse where George and Lennie was in, and ask where her husband Curley was. Curley’s wife was dressed like a tart that Lennie couldn’t stop looking at her. Lennie friend George looked away from her and told that Curley was in the bunkhouse a minute ago then left. When Curley’s wife, left George looked at Lennie, who was drooling for her. George got really mad at Lennie and told him “Well, you keep away from her, ‘cause she’s a rat-trap if I ever seen one. You let Curley take the rap.” (32). Therefore, there’s one reason why Curley’s wife got killed by Lennie.

John Steinbeck presents Curley’s wife at the start of the story as an irrelevant character because she has no relation with George and Lennie. At the start, Curley is one of the most important characters (besides George and Lennie) because he has the power to crush George and Lennie’s dream of having a farm of your own. But as the story goes on, to end, we see the importance of her character and that everything that has happened on the ranch is caused by her presence; even though she is not in the story as much as others, she has a long lasting effect on the other characters. She is mentioned in the story a lot because of how she would acted around the men working in the ranch. In the end, we knew Lennie and George were not going to get a

First here are the events leading up to lennie’s untimely death. Well lennie and george find a ranch but there is tension between curley and lennie because of his size. One day curley's wife and lennie are in the barn alone and lennie accidentally broke her neck killing her so lennie runs off. Curley sets out to find lennie and this is when george killed lennie. You might be saying the events don’t make it right. Well curley would have killed lennie one way or another.

In Of Mice and Men, I believe George's actions are justified at the end. If George hadn't shot Lennie then he would have died a more gruesome death. Curly and Carlson would have killed Lennie on sight and wouldn't have let him give an explanation as to why he broke Curley's wife's neck. Lennie isn't capable of understanding his own strength. First, it all started with something simple, mice.

Whenever her head pops in the door it is not a good time for anyone but herself. After rapidly telling her to go away Lennie got pulled into her manipulative hands and they started talking. “ Ever’body likes that. I like to feel silk an’ velvet. Do you like to feel velvet?” That quote shows that Curley’s wife was luring Lennie in to talking to her and also touch her hair. After that Lennie went in to touch her hair, after Curley’s wife constantly yelling at Lennie she was annoyed how he wouldn't let go then came the horrid nightmare for Lennie. Lennie latched on and would not let go, then the shaking began, Lennie was so angry at her for yelling and he shook her so hard by the neck consequenting in Curley’s wife’s neck to be broken and kill her he had done what everyone had wanted to do for

Of Mice and Men When someone gets treated poorly and they respond back in a negative or positive way and someone gets hurts. Is it their fault or the person that treated them poorly fault? Who would you punish? This occurs in the book Of Mice and Men when Lennie kills Curley’s wife.

Lennie would not let go of Curley's wife’s hair. Curley’s wife began yelling, so in panic Lennie snapped her neck. “I don’t want to hurt you,” he said, “but George’ll be mad if you yell” (Steinbeck). This quote shows that Lennie did not even know he had killed Curley's wife. He thought she was just sleeping.

and she begins to scream. In the end Lennie broke Curley's wife’s neck. Despite these incidents however, George still cared for and was a friend to Lennie. George says, “With us it ain’t like that.

A person’s chromosomes should not determine their worth, as a woman’s chromosomes should not determine her’s. I am a woman, yet I am treated as an object. I am human, yet I am treated as less than such. I am my own person, yet I am treated as someone else’s possession. I have a name, yet I am only referred to as “Curley’s wife”. I live in a time, where women are oppressed and objectified. Where a woman’s beauty and strength is a threat to society. A time where women who seek jobs are scorned for taking said jobs and money away from men. In a society where money is equivalent to self worth, women are actively discouraged from earning money, or establishing a stable career for themselves. In the society I live in today, women are still believed

Lennie’s rash character does not help the situation because he provokes Curley’s wife and allows her to get close to him even though it is going to be bad for the both of them. Comparing Lennie to a machine highlights his rash character also, because he is tough and can break people’s arms and hands without even having to apply that much pressure. That also creates a conflict because he knows that he is too strong to be handling anything. Curley’s wife knows that she should not be flirting with Lennie, but he is an easy target. Lennie was not thinking rationally and gets easily persuaded by her flirtatious aims. This is really the beginning of the conflict between Lennie and Curley’s wife because she has been flirting with him, and that will later bring out the rash character of Lennie and cause a dire ending for the both of them. Getting scared from all of Curley’s wife's yelling, Lennie acts out, “...he shook her; and her body flopped like a fish. And then she was still, for Lennie had broken her neck” (91). Lennie was again being rash and he panicked and broke Curley’s wife's

Loneliness "Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty. "- Mother Teresa. In Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck, loneliness is a major theme displayed by Curley's Wife and Crooks. If a person is disconnected from their surroundings or isolated in view of their skin shading, they can feel a strong emotion of loneliness.

Curley's wife tells Lennie about how she hates Curly and she had opportunities to be in a picture/movie and make something out of herself. Curley's wife even meet a guy that was going to help her make it big, but he never responded back, at this point she knew her dreams weren't going flourish so she settled for Curley to get out of her hometown. Curley's wife used Curley as an option b in a sense because she never wanted a husband as controlling and cruel as Curley, but he was the only way to somewhat of a bright future for her. Curley wife tells Lennie about herself because she looks at Lennie as a child-like gentleman and the irony is, of course, Lennie murdering her in the end, but she just was tired of not being able to have contact everyone