Lennie’s Self Defense This book is called Of Mice and Men and the author is John Steinbeck. It has been assumed that Lennie broke Curly’s hand out of self-defense. Curly thought that Lennie was laughing at him but Lennie was laughing at a different topic. Curly assumes that Lennie was laughing at him, and Curly was throwing punches at Lennie. Then Lennie caught one of his hands and effortlessly crushed Curly’s hand. I beli…showed first 75 words of 267 total…

…showed last 75 words of 267 total…re he would stop Curly. He didn’t know what else to do because of these three reasons. First he is a little slow in the head from the incident with the horse. When he kept on getting hit him was confused of the situation and he got hurt. I consider Lennie breaking Curly’s hand out of self-defense, because of the accident with the horse and the fact he is slow.