What similarities can you detect between the characters of Lennie and Curley's Wife? this is a chapter five question, and quotes are needed.

Lennie and Curley's wife both find themselves separated
from the rest of the group for different reasons. With Lennie, he's just not able to
socially keep up and compete with the other guys. With Curley's wife, she just doesn't
have any girlfriends. Because of this separation, they both feel vunerable, lonely, and
abandoned. This separation can be shown through their discussion in chapter
5:

"Why can't
I talk to you? I never get to talk to nobody. I get awful
lonely."

Lennie said, "Well, I ain't supposed to talk to
you or nothing.

Further on,
we see that they both have incredible dreams that they stake their life hope in.
Curley's wife says:

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Could been in the movies, an' had nice clothes -
all them nice clothes they wear. An' I coulda sat in them big hotels, an' had pitcher
took of me.

Lennie's dream is
different, but serves the same purpose:

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We gonna have a little place... We gonna have a
house an' a garden and a place for alfalfa, an' that alfalfa is for the rabbits, an' T
take a sack and get it all fulla alfalfa and then I take it to the
rabbits.

Obviously, they both
have hope, although for each the hope is truly an unrealistic
one.

Hope that helps.