Curley is not very social because he does not like men bigger than himself. Everyone is bigger than Curley, especially Lennie. So Curley stays away from them. Unless he needs to see them when he is looking for his wife or is looking for trouble. He is also not social because he is the ranch owner’s son, so he sees himself higher than all the workers. Curley sees the workers as slaves. Curley likes to pick on Lennie because Lennie is a lot bigger and is not very smart. But Curley does not know that Lennie is strong as 4 of the workers put together. Lennie does not fight back till George tells him to when Curley picks on him. That is why Curley sees Lennie as a weak man. But when Curley pick on Lennie, Lennie dose not fight back till George tells him to. This is show on page 66 chapter 3
George was on his feet yelling: “Get him, Lennie. Don’t let him do it.” George put out his hand and grabbed Slim. “Wait a Minute,” he shouted. He cupped his hand around his mouth and yelled: “Get ‘im, Lennie!”
I think that Curley is just a troubled young man and is used to being the man on the ranch. I think this by the way he bets everyone up and he is also the ranch owner’s son. He can get away with any think because of this. Every think that he wants to, will or can do. If I was Lennie I would have taken Curley’s life or given him a near death experience. I would just not of stopped my self from betting Curley because he is one big stuck up bully.
Curley’s wife is generally considered to be a tramp by the men at the ranch. Curley's Wife is the only major character in Of Mice and Men whom Steinbeck does not give a name. I do not know why he has not given her a name.
She admits loneliness when she says on page 92 chapter 5.
“I get lonely, you can talk to people, but I can’t talk to nobody but Curley.”
She dislikes her husband and feels desperately lonely at the ranch, for she is the only woman and feels isolated from the other men, who openly scorn her. She still holds some small hope of a better life, claiming that she had the chance to become a movie star in Hollywood.
Curley’s wife meets a guy who was in the pitchers. Who offered to put her in to the movies. This is shown on page 93 chapter 5.
Nother time I met a guy, an’ he was in pitchers. Went out to the 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.
But the letter never came and she and made her bitter, she says this on pages 93 and 94 chapter 5
“I never got that letter. Always thought 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.”
Otherwise is a bitter and scornful woman who shamelessly uses sex to intimidate the workers. Lennie accidentally murders her when she comes into the barn when he has killed to puppy by petting it to hard.
