Curley wanted to fight George I think, so he picked on Lennie. He hit Lennie a couple times and then Lennie stopped a punch in mid-air and squeezed Curley fist and brokenit ending his boxing career. Then Lennie Lille Curleys wife and he runs away and George kills him. :)
He took an arrow to the hand.
Curley attacks Lennie out of anger and aggression, blaming him for the death of his wife. In retaliation, Lennie crushes Curley's hand, revealing his immense strength and inadvertently causing Curley significant harm.
Curley ultimately gets his hand crushed by Lennie when Lennie fights back in self-defense. This incident leads to a chain of events that culminates in tragedy for both Lennie and Curley's wife in John Steinbeck's novel "Of Mice and Men."
The fight between Lennie and Curley shows that Curley is aggressive, combative, and quick to assert his dominance. On the other hand, Lennie is portrayed as simple-minded and unintentionally destructive, reacting impulsively out of fear and self-defense rather than malice.
George and Lennie clash with Curley, the boss's son on the ranch where they work. Curley is aggressive and confrontational, leading to tension and conflict between them throughout the story.
Curley thinks that Lennie is making fun of him through his silence. Lennie is very large and Curley is short. Curley is defensive about his height and dislikes Lennie's silence.
Curley was in the bunk room beating up Lennie. Curley was looking for his wife and saw Lennie laughing. Curley thought Lennie was laughing at him when he really wasn't. Curley then started to beat up Lennie while George is screaming to Lennie to fight back. Lennie then grabs Curley's fist as he is about to punch him again, and Lennie crushes Curley's fist. The damage to Curley's fist was so bad he was taken to the hospital. Slim forces Curley to say his hand was crushed by a machine. There were hardly any bones left in Curley's hand, and Curley was crying.
If Curley had caught Lennie for killing his wife, he likely would have sought revenge and possibly harmed or killed Lennie himself, fueled by his anger and desire for vengeance. Curley's reaction would have been driven by a combination of his need to assert dominance and his personal vendetta against Lennie.
If you're talking about the book 'of mice and men', they pretty much hate each other;In one scene, Curley beats up Lennie for no real reason, George tells Lennie to fight back, so Lennie does, not meaning to break/seriously injure Curley's hand. After this incident, Curley hates Lennie, (obvious) and hates George for being Lennie's friend, and not being on Lennie's side.Something that doesn't help their relationship, is how protective Curley is over Curley's wife. Curley's wife is very flirtatious, and tries to have conversations with both George and Lennie. Curley hates George for flirting with his wife, even though it wasnt his fault. He is also too strict with his wife, which makes her go looking for even more trouble.Near the end of the novella, Curley's wife tries to talk to Lennie in the barn, but they get into a bit of trouble, by Lennie accidentally killing her. he then runs away, knowing how much trouble he will be in with everybody. When Curley finds out what happened, he automatically blames Lennie without proof, so therefore hates George even more.Hope this helps, and if you watch the film, it should be a bit clearer.
she knows that curley's injury was not made from the machine but that curley had a fight with someone. then she sees that lennie's face is all bruised and injured and immediately knows that there had been a conflict between lennie and curley
At first Lennie doesn't fight back, but then George says get Curley to Lennie so Lennie grabs Curley's fist and breaks his hand and doesn't let go until George starts slapping him.
Lennie choked Curley's wife