Chapter Five

Candy discovered Curley's wife's body in the barn.

Old Candy appeared around the end of the last stall. "Oh, Lennie!" he called again; and then he stopped, and his body stiffened. He rubbed his smooth wrist on his white stubble whiskers. "I di’n’t know you was here," he said to Curley’s wife. When she didn’t answer, he stepped nearer.

"You oughten to sleep out here," he said disapprovingly; and then he was beside her and—"Oh, Jesus Christ!" He looked about helplessly, and he rubbed his beard. And then he jumped up and went quickly out of the barn.