In this part, Curley's wife finds Lennie upset that his puppy died. Curley's wife tells Lennie that she was offered a job being a actress. She was called a natural, and the man promised to write to her after he returned to Hollywood, though that letter never came. Curley's wife was thinking about the life she could have had, and comparing it to the pitiful life she was living.
I believe that she confessed this to Lennie of all people is because he is someone who might understand her. All the other men on the ranch shun and think of her as a lower class. Lennie is someone who viewed as "lower class" because of his mental disability, and he is the only person on the ranch who wouldn't immediately turn her away.
After telling Lennie about her dream, Lennie tells her about George's plan. She calls him nuts, not believing him at first, then finds him to be a good man. She lets him feel her hair since he liked soft things. Lennie strokes it, then gets his fingers tangled. Scared, he hangs on to Curley's wife's hair and when she screams, he panics and kills her.
Part 6
Part6 was extremely surprising, with George shooting Lennie. The death of Candy's dog kind of foreshadowed this. Candy had to let someone he loved and treasured die just like George. But unlike Candy, George decided to do it himself, he did not allow a stranger kill his friend. Along with that reason, I believe that George also killed Lennie for a non-selfish reason. Lennie was obsessed with the rabbits and the idea owning them. But, if Lennie hadn't died, then he would have to sit in jail for a long period of time, wishing for rabbits. That would be very cruel on George's part, so to set Lennie free, the only thing George could do was kill him.
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