Lennie - Curley's Motivation to Kill Him (Part 6)

In part 5 in the book of Mice and Men, Curley finds his wife dead. He gets very mad, and instantly knew who did it. When he knew it was Lennie who killed his wife. I think when Curley figured it was he felt Lennie is a violent man. Curley wanted to get back at him for killing his wife, so in anger he says, "I'll kill the son-of-a-bitch myself. I'll shoot 'im in the guts" (96). Carlson agreed and went to go get his Luger but Lennie took the Luger, which made Curley even more motivated to kill Lennie. When George told Curly, "The poor bastard's nuts. Don't shoot 'im. He di'n't know what he was doin"' (98), Curley responded in , "Course we'll shoot 'im" (98). This shows how much Curley wants to get back at Lennie. I feel that every mistake Lennie makes is an accident. He never means to do them. I think that Curley mostly wants to kill Lennie because Lennie is very big and if Curley kills him he will feel he has the most power over everyone.