Who's to blame? The life of ranchers in the 1930s was very lonely. They have no family and do not belong anywhere. They come to the ranch, earn their pay, go to town, waste the money, and start all over again on another ranch. They have nothing to look forward to. But George and Lennie are different; For them it's not like that because they have each other. It was George and Lennie's dream to own a piece of land and a farm. That dream is long gone. In John Steinbeck's story Of Mice and Men, Curley caused the deaths of his wife and Lennie; Curley also shattered George and Lennie's dream. In the same way that George and Lennie had a dream, Curley's wife also had one; For Curley's wife, living on a farm with a bunch of men who hate her and an annoying husband who hates her isn't exactly what she hoped to achieve in life. If she had been treated better, she wouldn't have wanted anyone to understand and care for her, because Curley would have done it for her. But since Curley didn't do that, she wanted to get the attention of anyone who would listen, and that's where Lennie got involved. When Curley's wife enters the shed and starts talking to Lennie she says something very important: “… it seems like none of them care how I have to live (88)”. When Curley's wife says this, she shows us how much she wants someone to listen to her and care about what she has to say. It also shows us that she wants someone to listen to her so badly that she is willing to talk to someone who doesn't understand what she has to say. Since Lennie doesn't really understand or care about what she has to say, she draws attention to her again by making Lennie focus on her soft hair. Lennie strokes the hair in the... center of the card... of his best friend, who dies at the hands of a cruel stranger. To put it another way, Lennie was going to die no matter what, he could have been happy for his last seconds of life, or he could have been petrified, and Curley was the one who tasked George with this tough decision. in other words, Curley not only shattered George and Lennie's dreams, but also killed his wife and Lennie. Curley had never cared for his wife. He only cared about himself and his reputation. Curley has wanted revenge on Lennie ever since Lennie crushed his arm. By forcing George to kill Lennie, Curley not only killed Lennie, but also killed part of George. To be sure, life during the Great Depression was hard, but it seemed that George and Lennie were different from the rest of men, that they could survive because they had each other; this was true until Curley appeared.