Candy, left alone with Curley's dead wife, takes a minute to yell at her for being the source of all their troubles.
As Candy leaves for the bunkhouse to tell the guys what he's found, he's teary. Not for the dead girl. For the lost dream.
All the men come in to look at the dead woman, scuffing their boots in the straw. Curley says "the big son-of-a-bitch" has done this and he intends to shoot him right in the guts.
Curley and Carlson run out of the barn to round up guns and men and go in search of the guts.
Meanwhile, Slim says quietly to George that, given the way Curley's wife's neck is broken, Lennie could well have done it.
George is quiet, and Slim reminds him vaguely about "the time in Weed" George had described earlier. With his hat pulled down low over his eyes, George says nothing.