How Does Steinbeck Present Crooks Monologue

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It was a few days when George, Lennie, and I have made an arrangement to buy the land by the end of the month. I’m finally getting out of this ranch before I’m not of use anymore and they decide to can an old man like me. I already have most of the money for the land and now we need to work up a few more hundreds by the end of the month to get our land. Everyone was in town on this Saturday night and I went in search for Lennie to tell him about the rabbits. I came upon the negro stable buck’s room, Crooks. He invited me in, strange, because I didn’t think he likes to have visitors. Lennie pops up reminding why I was here in the first place, the rabbits. I told him we could make some money on the rabbits if we do it right, of course, Lennie gets to tend them. Then Crooks suddenly interrupts us saying we’re crazy! Well I’ll show him that we’re not, because George says we can get the land and we got the money we need to hold the land until we get the rest of the money! Yet Crooks still argues on how we won’t get it because every man who dreams of getting a land gets their dreams crushed. What is this man trying to get at? Just because everyone else never got their land, doesn’t mean we won’t because we weren’t alone. I had George and Lennie to help with the money and get the land. I’ve never had land, I’ve been spending my time planting many crops …show more content…

I was sick and tired of her thinking she was so great because she is married to Curley who just happens to be the boss’s son. Though, Lennie and Crooks just sat there, and I wasn’t going to let her get away with it. I stood up and started telling her off. She wasn’t wanted here. I know that we’re not going to stay in this ranch, I know that we’re going to live on a nice land all to ourselves. I tried to contain myself as she said “baloney”, I have had enough, I told her to

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