Why do George and Lennie run away from Weed in Of Mice and Men?

Weed was
actually named after a man named Weed. It is still a very small town in a mountainous, heavily
forested region, with a population of just under 3,000 by the last census. It would have been
smaller in 1937. It is located just below the Oregon border. It was an unlikely place forandto
be working, but Steinbeck wanted to put it as far away as possible because he didnt want anyone
around Salinas to have heard the real truth about the incident. That real truth was probably
that Lennie attacked a very young girl without really understanding what his sexual motivation
was. Something similar happened with the idiot Benjy in William Faulkners The Sound
and the Fury. Jason had to have Benjy castrated. The girl Lennie molested started
screaming and attracted a mob of local men who intended to lynch both Lennie and George. George
was not present when Lennie molested the girl. They were immediately on the run, so George only
got the story from Lennie--and Lennie shows in Chapter One that he lies to George all the time.
Furthermore, Lennie didn't understand his own motives because (1) he is mentally retarded, (2)
his sex drive is new to him. When George sees the dead body of Curley's wife, he will understand
what was really happening in Weed. Lennie didn't just want to feel the dress. He might have torn
the dress right off the girl if George hadn't intervened.