How Are Lennie and Curley’s Wife a Victim of Their Own Loneliness?

Lennie and Curley's wife are seen as impaired individuals in the society. However each of them experience discrimination against their own weakness, and their weakness at the end results in their doomed fate. For Curley's wife, her woman role in society is one of her weakness as she experiences prejudice against herself. She's perceived as one of the weak ones in the ranch by others, and also given the impression as a negative influence. Whilst being flirtatious with other men, they respond by insulting her “tart” and “jail-bait.” However, they don't have the ability to understand that flirtatious manner is just simply out of desire for companionship. As they perceive her as a negative image, they isolate her as she desperately struggles to find companionship, in which results in her doomed fate of being killed by Lennie.

Lennie on the other hand, also experiences impairment in the society. However, his limited mental capacity to understand things is undetermined by his physical strength. Sadly, he doesn't understand that his strength causes harm as he doesn't have the capacity to understand the consequences he would have to face. The example of the killing the puppy while petting it indicates the repetitive cycle of harming innocent animals just because he wants to pet them harder. His inability to sense danger is shown as his “fingers closed on her hair and hung on”, even if he is hurting her. The words “hung on” reinforce the incident in weed, which shows his mistake of holding on to the girl’s dress. This cycle unfortunately leads him to holding on to Curley's wife hair and breaking her neck. This again, is caused by Lennie's inability of not understand his strength and therefore he has to face the consequences with his own death.

Both Lennie and Curley' wife are distracted by their dreams and not aware of the danger they will cause. Whilst Lennie and Curley's wife are distracted