Crooks is isolated because of color and his disability. He is physically divided from his fellow co workers and lives in a separate bunkhouse. His loneliness forces him to acquiesce when Lennie tries to make a decent conversation with him. But when Lennie fills Crooks in about the dream farm place, all he does is laughs. It could be because he saw too many men say that but they end up working for someone or just simply ended up in ditch. Crooks is understandably cynical and shows apprehension about how others treat him in return. He cannot see beyond the preconception he has always encountered in the past. Ways that Crooks copes with his seclusion is by reading books. The other guys can't read but he can which gives him a huge advantage of…
From “Of mice and men” George and Lennie almost grew up together, George would be out in the field and Lennie would just come outside to help and from there George and Lennie started a friendship. They had a strong enough bond for each other when Lennie’s aunt died, George took him under his wing. George kept him him with him while he worked. Lennie was so big that he could handle his own work and help get things done faster. The bond they made helped them overcome being lonely.…
George and Lennie have a strong relationship because they both continue to stay with each other. George shows that he is willing to continue to stay with Lennie when he tells him a future plan. George tells Lennie that they…
Lennie’s brief conversation with Crooks shows how although he is crippled he is also smart and reveals different characters view on blacks. Though Crooks was born in California (not like most blacks in California that had migrated there, he implies), he is made to feel like an outsider because he is black, even in his home state. Crooks is painfully aware that his skin color is all that keeps him separate from everyone else on the ranch. This status of being an outsider who does not being causes him to grief in his loneliness, but he seems to enjoy and even provoke the loneliness of others, perhaps because misery loves company. He was forced to sleep in a separate bunk than the others. As he is trapped alone every night with no one to talk he soon resorts to books as his only friend. Trying to put himself out there as proud and strong, but inside is happy to be around the other men. Crooks first tried to make Lennie leave his room but then he decided that Lennie would not understand and that he actually wanted someone to talk with. During his conversation with Lennie Crooks explains his loneliness on the ranch. “I seen it over an’ over a guy talkin’ to another guy and it don’t make no difference if he don’t hear or understand.” Although he is talking to Lennie about George, he is actually speaking of his own life. Crooks knows that Lennie is slow and…
Crooks tells Lennie so much about himself because it's the first time someone came to his bunk and wanted to have a conversation with him. Crooks is a very lonely man because he's black and sadly he was shunned to a small stable, Crooks at first when Lennie wanted to hang out he said to leave him alone, but Lennie didn't understand so Crooks finally allowed him to sit and talk. Crooks vents to Lennie about his mistreatment as an African-American, then he teases Lennie because he relies so much on George and If George got injured what would Lennie do, Lennie panics thinking George is actually hurt, but then Crooks calm him down so Crooks to me is a mixed emotion guy because he deserves to be mad about his mistreatment, but he shouldn't tease Lennie at all. Crooks invited Lennie in because he just needed to talk to someone and that person was Lennie and he knows there's something wrong mentally with Lennie so he told so much about himself because he knows Lennie wouldn't remember a single word from the conversation.…
Of Mice and Men is set in 1930’s America in the middle of the economic depression. It is geared towards the pursuit of the American dream, promoting the ideas of equality, life, liberty and happiness. Steinbeck uses Crooks, and to some extent Curley’s wife to challenge the perception of equality and sometimes the language used is, by modern standards, racist and misogynistic. There is an irony in the fact that the people judging Crooks are less intelligent than he is and they refuse to look at anything other than the stereotype of his ethnicity. Steinbeck reveals as much about Crooks in the things he does not express as in the things he does.…
Crooks says Lennie has no right to be here. Lennie and Crooks are each talking but not listening to each other. Lennie talks about rabbits and Crooks is refreshing his old memories. Crooks starts getting excited from having someone to talk to. “George can tell you screwy things, and it don’t mater. It’s just the talking. It’s just bein’ with another guy. That’s all.” (p71) He never has actual friends, so he is kind of jealous and feel bad about his own isolation. He tells Lennie that George may not come back from town. “S’pose George don’t come back no more. S’pose he took a poweder and just ain’t coming back. What’ll you do then?” (p71) When Crooks realizes how upset Lennie is, he says to him that he was just supposing. Crooks didn’t have such a great time before to feel free to talk to someone else, and because of Lennie, it might affect Crooks relationships toward others a lot.…
George tells Lennie why their life is good by comparing themselves to others, he explain that it is actually because of their friendship which makes them different than others. It can be told that Lennie is very important to George since he always take god care of him and never leave him; on the other hand, George is also essential and important to Lennie. (This can be proved in chapter 4 in the conversation between Crooks and Lennie especial when Crooks says pretend George will not back.)…
In 'Of Mice and Men', John Steinbeck includes a character, Crooks, as a stereotype of black people in the Great Depression; proud, bitter, and very sarcastic. Crooks is also extremely pessimistic and cold-hearted, due to the way people had been treating him all his life. Steinbeck portrays many of his characters lonely and isolated. Just as Candy's age and handicap isolate him, and Curley's wife's being a female makes her life solitary, Crooks's race is the main reason for his isolation. Because of his race, he is discriminated and must live in a separate room (a shed), away from everyone else. Steinbeck revolves all of Chapter 4 around Crooks so that he could convey Crooks loneliness and isolation.…
Crooks is separated from the other men because of his color. Back in the 1930’s many African Americans had no rights and were discriminated against because of their color. He understands the men don't like him around and he would rather be isolated instead of ridiculed for something he simply can't change about himself. Because Crooks is so disliked he doesn't often get much company. When Crooks first meets Lennie he doesn't push him away like the other because he also realizes that Lennie doesn't understand much and will just listen to anyone. Crooks explains to Lennie that life is no good without a companion to turn to in times of confusion and need. “‘A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody. Don't make no difference who the guy is, long’s he’s with you. I tell ya.” he cried, “I tell ya a guy gets too lonely an he gets sick’”(35) He believes that everybody needs a friend and being lonely is one of the worst feelings in the world. Just like Candy, Crooks also wants to share the farm because he also wants to feel free and wanted. He knows that if he were to leave the ranch and have his own place that he wouldn't be so discriminated against. He would actually be able to live a carefree…
Crooks is constantly referred to as a negro throughout the book. He is treated as someone want to or should be around. He even has his own shack because other workers refuse to sleep in the same bunkhouse as him. Plus, it’s not something that’s even kept on the down-low, he even mentioned how he knew they didn't like him and how he isn’t wanted. When Lennie asks him why he says that, he responds with, “Cause I’m black. They play cards in there, but I can’t play because I’m black. They say I stink.”(68) He also has to live separately and be alone compared to the others who at least socialize with one another once in awhile. Because of his race, he lives an isolated life, and the thing is, around that time, he was definitely not the only one. Society frowned upon black people and would burn them at the stake if any supposed wrongful mistake or crime was committed by them. Around the great depression, there were many migrant worker who would move across the country in hopes of finding work. Around that time period, they were all looking for the same thing, a piece of land they would own, grow crops in, and have a family in. Old man Candy had his hopes set on this piece of…
George and Lennie have a stronger relationship because they have common goals. In the beginning of the story, George and Lennie were raced out of their previous town, leaving them homeless. There situation though, hasn’t changed their mindset to…
Lennie and George = These two were two lonely people who treated each other like father and son.…
Crooks is forced to live in the barn because of his skin colour, he is heavily discriminated against and due to this has little outside communication with anyone else since he lives in the barn and because of his colour. This causes him to be rude to Lennie and attempt to push him away when all Lennie wants to do is be friends. Later on though Crooks is hesitant when Lennie tries to leave because he sees Lennie is not like the rest of the people and that he genuinely wants to be friends with Crooks. This shows that he is very lonely and that the feeling of companionship is uncommon to him. Crooks believes that “a guy goes nuts if he ain’t got nobody. don’t make no difference who the guy is, long’s he’s with you”…
Crooks was affected by isolation more than many of the other characters were as he was not only a migrant worker but he was also the only african american on the ranch. In addition to that he was a stable hand and was not bucking barley like most of the other people on the ranch. His isolation affects him so that he immediately shows a lack of morality when he first meets Lennie and without even taking time to talk to him he practically reduces Lennie to tears. “Crooks face lighted with pleasure in his torture”(Steinbeck 71). Another character who shows a lack of morality is Curley. Curley shows a lack of morality when communicating with practically everyone on the ranch. He gets into a fight with Lennie just because he is bigger and doesn’t understand Lennie’s situation after he kills his wife and immediately wants to kill him and wasn’t Lennie to be lynched. Curley’s lack of morality keeps him separate from the rest of the ranchers which affects his human experience by making him a very bitter person. Curley starts a fight with Lennie because he was “still smiling with delight at the memory of the ranch.” (Steinbeck 62), showing how Curley’s lack of morality affects how interacts with…