When Lennie, Candy, and Crooks are alone in a room together, Curley’s wife approaches them and says, “They left all the weak ones here.” Curley’s wife had no reason to call the three men weak, and she was the one who approached them. She also threatens Crooks by saying, “I could get you strung up on a tree so easy it ain’t even funny.” Even though Crooks was arguing with her, there was no reason for her to threaten his life the way she did. Later in the story, Curley’s wife is kind to Lennie and lets him stroke her hair. This proves that she chose to be cruel to Lennie and the others and argued with them for the sake of personal amusement. Curley’s wife chose to be cruel to the three men without any real