Part 4:

In part 4 Of Mice and Men, Curley's wife makes a statement that is ironic in a couple of different ways. Curley's wife says, "They left all the weak ones here." The first ironic thing about the statement is Lennie is one of the physically strongest men on the farm and even though he is sometimes weak on the inside she is wrong by calling everyone weak. If Curley's wife new what had happened to Curley's hand than she would understand that Lennie is not weak. Lennie had to be strong to contain all anger when he was being hurt but he also had to be brave and physically strong enough to fight back to Curley. The second ironic thing about the statement is Curley's wife says that Lennie, Candy, Crooks and everyone else left behind is weak but she was also left behind so she would technically be calling herself weak too. The last ironic thing about Curley's wife statement is when she entered Crooks cabin she asked if anyone knew where Curley was when she actually knew where he was. The ironic thing about that is Curley's wife was lonely and bored so she purposely went and asked them where Curley was but then she called all of them weak. If she was just going to insult them and call them weak there was no point for her going into the cabin.