Curley's Motivation

In of Mice and Men, parts five and six had a lot of important and meaningful events occurring, but the most interesting part was Curley's motivation to go after Lennie after he killed his wife. Curley had several reasons why he wanted to go after Lennie. I think they were that Lennie was bigger than him, Lennie broke his hand, and over all revenge over everything. In earlier chapters Candy told George and Lennie that Curley never like big guys. "Curley's like a lot of little guys. He hates big guys. He's alla time picking scraps with big guys. Kind of like he's mad at 'em because he ain't a big guy" (26). I understand that being short in a crowd of big, tall people can sometimes be frustrating, but that doesn't mean he has to pick fights with bigger people. Curley also wanted revenge on Lennie because Lennie broke his hand, and is stronger than him. Curley decided to pick a fight with Lennie because he knew Lennie was not very smart and he did not think Lennie was capable of hurting him. Lennie is so much stronger than Curley because Lennie broke Curley's hand. Curley wants overall revenge because of many moments in the story. For example the first day Lennie and Curley met, Curley talked to Lennie, but George had told Lennie not to speak before then so Curley was getting annoyed that Lennie was not answering. Also Curley was really mad because Lennie killed his wife. Even though Lennie accidentally killed her, Curley was still angry. I do not blame Curley for being mad at Lennie for killing his wife, but he still seemed like a jerk to go try to find Lennie to kill him. Curley was a very interesting character throughout the book.