What does lennie do to curleys wife

Despite his large size, he comes across as childlike, and George seems to have to take care of him. I gotta tell you again, do I? I knowed his Aunt Clara. She took him in when he was a baby and raised him up. George and Lennie travel together because they have known each other since they were children and a natural friendship developed over time. Got kinda used to each other after a little while.

Race is the central reason why Crooks has his own room set apart from the other men at the ranch. You go on get outta my room. They say I stink. Well, I tell you, you all of you stink to me.

Maybe I will yet. Lennie is picked on by Curley, the Boss's son see pp. Lennie admires Curley's wife — 'Gosh, she was purty' see p. He meets Slim in the bunk house see pp. Curley comes to the bunk house and picks a fight with Lennie, who eventually crushes Curley's hand when ordered to retaliate by George see pp. Lennie talks to Crooks, and gets angry with him when Crooks suggests George will leave him see pp. Lennie kills the puppy Slim has given him and tries to bury it in the barn see pp.

Curley's wife enters the barn and encourages Lennie to stroke her hair. When she feels Lennie's strength she panics, and Lennie shakes her to death see pp. He runs to get George and the two discuss what has happened and predict that Curley will want to kill Lennie. Candy asks about the dream of buying a farm and the two realise that this is now never going to happen.

He cries before going to find the rest of the men to tell them about her death. The men enter and Curley demands that Lennie be found and killed. Carlson says that his gun is missing and they suspect that Lennie has taken it.

George tells the men to go in a different direction to where he knows Lennie will be. In Chapter Six , Lennie is hiding in the bushes next to the clearing he and George stayed in at the start of the book.

He hallucinates, seeing his Aunt Clara and a giant rabbit.