Crooks is sitting in his room when Lennie comes by. They're alone, because everyone else has gone off to Suzy's clean and comedic house of ill repute. Lennie (revealing his secret-keeping capabilities) immediately tells Crooks about the dream farm. You'd think that Crooks would be sympathetic, because he's kind of an outcast, too. But you'd be wrong. Loneliness has made him hostile, and he starts taking out his anger on Lennie by insinuating that George may never come back. Lennie freaks out and gets mad. Crooks sees Lennie towering over him and retracts his comment. Lennie calms down. Phew. That was close. Somehow, Crooks decides this is the perfect moment for a speech about how every guy needs another guy to talk to. Evidently Candy didn't
go to Suzy's, either, because he comes in now to talk about the farm they're supposedly getting. Hey, Crooks wants to be part of this plan! Just as they're doing some really nice male-bonding, Curley's wife appears in the doorway. "They left all the weak ones here," she says, in a surprising burst of (cruel) insight. Curley's wife reveals she's lonely and wants someone to talk to, even if it is a "nigger an' a dum-dum and a lousy ol' sheep." The "nigger, dum-dum, and sheep" just want her to leave, thanks. Curley's wife asks Lennie how he got the bruises on his face. Crooks tells her again to leave, and she threatens to have Crooks lynched. The men return from Suzy's brothel, $2.50 poorer. When George comes in and Candy admits that they've told Crooks about the farm, George is Not Happy. Nah, man, Crooks was just joking. He retreats once again into the sadness and safety of his solitary life
Crooks talks with Lennie in the book, "Crooks laughed again. ‘A guy can talk to you an’ be sure you won’t
There are moments in which they are driven out of an emotional need to show immortalization to George or show deference to him. In the altercation between Lennie and Crooks, the controversy of companionship is raised. Crooks lives a life alone and he possesses a sense of enviousness towards the friendship that Lennie have a hand in with George. When Crooks wanted to make his point, he talks to Lennie about how his (Lennie's) world would fundamentally change if George left and went out on his own: Crooks advances this in discussing with Lennie the assumption such an action, suggesting that George might simply fall victim to getting hurt. However, Lennie paraphrases this vision as a threat of harm against George: At this moment, Lennie threatens Crooks through body language and voice inflection because of his motivation to chaperon George. The motivation of bulwarking George initiates his actions of becoming aggressive, something that Crooks immediately realizes in backing down from his initial stance. Lennie's motivations to champion George inspire his actions in wishing to do harm to anyone or anything that would cause danger to George.
Other than when they are working, the other men shut Crooks out of all of their activities except the horseshoe games. Crooks are very isolated and not welcome in leisure activities. Crooks’ emotions are displayed to the reader when he talks to Lennie in his room about having no one to relate to and communicate with. He says: "Maybe you can see it now. " You got the George.
...nnie goes into his room, Crooks explains how when he was a child, his family was the only black family for miles. Sometimes, Crooks would play with the white children in the neighborhood. His father didn’t like that, and now Crooks knew why. He now shares his father’s feeling of apprehension against white people.
Lennie asks George to “tell it again” often, which usually follows “ ‘Come on George. Tell me. Please George, Like you done before.’ ‘You get a kick outta that, don’t you? Awright, I’ll tell you, and then we’ll eat our supper…’ George’s voice became deeper. He repeated his words rhythmically as though he had said them many times before” (13). In this quote, Lennie beseeches George to tell the story like he always does, and George obliges. Although George may think in the back of his head that his story will never happen, Lennie’s innocence silences that thought and persuades George to think that someday he might be living as he said he would be. Crooks responds to Lennie and Candy once he realizes that they were serious when they talked about the land that they would live on. “…If you…guys would want a hand to work for nothing--just his keep, why I’d come an’ lend a hand. I ain’t so crippled I can’t work like a son-of-a-bitch if I want to” (76). In these lines, Crooks wants to become part of the dream because of its innocence, which convinces Crooks that he would no longer be lonely once he finds himself on the cottage with everyone else. Lennie’s innocence blinds everyone with the idea that they can change their future, which tragically ends by Lennie’s
Nobody likes to be forced to live in a barn, let alone to work only with the horses. Crooks spent most of his nights reading and he keeps away from others because of the way he is treated and this eventually leads to his very own emotional downfall. He is treated as an outcast and is forced to find friendship the only way he can, through the books that he reads. Crooks is fascinated by the strength of the friendship of Lennie and George, especially how close they are. Crooks said, "Well, s'pose, jus' s'pose he don't come back.
Crooks was excluded from the group and had his own barn which was his only freedom. When Crooks said “Maybe you can see now. You got George. You know he’s goin’ to come back. S’pose you didn’t have nobody. S’pose you couldn’t go into the bunkhouse and play rummy ’cause you was black. How’d you like that? ” (Steinbeck 72), he wants to seek someone’s company like Lennie has George’s. Crooks threatened Lennie into the fact that George might not come back because he wanted Lennie to feel loneliness, but to his disappointment he was in vain. Crooks also conveys through his body language and the way he speaks that he doesn’t want to be excluded from the others and wants to participate in all the activities with them.
In John Steinbeck’s novel Of Mice and Men, the character named Crooks was segregated from the other men because he is black. This caused him to be lonely. He was forced to sleep in a separate bunk than the others. Trapped in solitude all night long; he resorts to books as his only companion. Trying to portray himself as proud and aloof by his own will, 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 reveals his loneliness on the ranch. “I seen it over an’ over a guy talkin’ to another guy and it don&...
If George wouldn’t have met Lennie, he would be a drunk in a whorehouse dying of cirrhosis. If Lennie didn’t meet George he would of died soon after his aunt did, because he would either have got himself in a bind with no one to help him or he would of simply wondered off and died of loneliness. & nbsp ; & nbsp ; & nbsp ; & nbsp ; & nbsp ; Crooks suffers from loneliness, because he is black, not because he is an unfriendly person. Crooks, though, may seem mean, but he is just tired of being rejected and disrespected by everybody around him. Crooks has a horrible life. He will never have a companion or anybody that will respect him unless he meets another black person.
... and feels uncertain of his future in the ranch. For Crooks, it was being segregated from the rest of the workers that made him lonely. And for Curley’s wife, it was the inability to talk to anyone else other than her husband. For George, the hope of such companionship dies with Lennie, and true to his original estimation, he will go through life alone.
He is first mentioned by Candy, the old swamper of the ranch, as a generous man when Crooks brings a gallon of whisky to everyone on Christmas. But readers will notice that the other characters are discriminatory towards Crooks since he is African-American. He is not allowed to even be in the bunkhouse, so he sleeps in the barn and reads books alone. Many characters push him over as well; Curley’s wife boasts, “‘I can get you strung up so easily that it ain’t funny’”(81). Crooks also has almost no one to talk to, as he explains how it feels when he talks to Lennie in his room: “‘You got George. You know he’s goin’ to come back. S’pose you didn’t have nobody. S’pose you couldn’t go into the bunkhouse and play rummy ‘cause you was black… A guy needs somebody - to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain’t got nobody… I tell ya a guy gets too lonely and gets sick’” (72-73). Because Crooks has been isolated in the barn for all of his time working at the ranch, he becomes reclusive and bitter, unlike the other men in the bunkhouse. George then walks into Crooks’s room and leaves with Lennie after wishing Crooks a good night. Crooks is never mentioned in the story
When talking to Lennie he explains how the whole situation of not being allowed to sleep or hang out in the bunkhouse makes him feel lonely. So Lennie could understand how he felt, Crooks made Lennie believe that George wasn't coming back. Crooks then said to explain why he made Lennie believe George was gone he said, “S’pose you have nobody. S’pose you couldn’t play rummy ‘cause you was black. How’d that make you feel?” (Steinberg 72).He tries to make Lennie understand how he is feeling because it makes himself feel unwanted and unneeded. That just because of his color he cant have any interaction at all. He wants Lennie to feel sympathy for him and become his friend. Crooks then explains why everyone needs a companion by their side when saying, “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” (Steinberg 72-73). Crooks is trying to make Lennie understand that without anyone he is lonely and bored of doing things all by himself. That his solo activities of reading and playing horseshoes wasn’t appeasing and he needed a companion before he went crazy. Crooks was the loneliest person on the farm but he could never change that because of his skin color. Since Crooks is so lonely he has no hope that he’ll ever have really have a friend again. He wishes things were like his childhood again. He says, “Had two brothers. They was always near me, always there” (Steinberg 73). He wants his childhood back because that was the only time in his life that he had companionship. Crooks misses having people always surrendering him like all the white men have in the bunkhouse. But now Crooks knows he will never have friendship until another black man comes. So he loses hope on ever having a companion with one of the white
Crooks is not allowed to enter the bunkhouse because he is a negro. There were strict discrimination policies during that time so he had to reside in his own bunk, alone. To pass the time Crooks had learned how to read and had become very proficient at it. The other men also played horseshoes on the weekends and held tournaments which Crooks was also not allowed to participate in. This made Crooks form a bond of friendship with Lennie since he was also not allowed to play because he was mentally
Crooks is the stable buck, and once when he was doing his job he got kicked in the back by a horse & has been living with chronic pain since then. Also when Lennie comes into his room they have a conversation on page 17 and Lennie asked, "Why ain't you wanted?", so Crooks says "'Cause I'm black. They play cards in there, but I can't play because I'm black. They say I stink, Well, I tell you, you all of you stink to me.”, and I am guessing Crooks isn’t saying it happily, so it really shows how he is treated around camp.
In the barn “Crooks could leave his things about”(Steinbeck 66-67).This quote shows that crooks didn’t have to worry about anybody touching his things. But just like George and Lennie, Crooks had a dream.But every dream must come to an end look at Lennie's hallucinations.