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Crooks
says
¨´A guy goes nuts if he ain´t got nobody. Don´t make no difference who the guy is as long as he´s with you. I tell ya,´ he cried. ´I tell ya a guy gets too lonley an´ he gets sick´¨ (Steinbeck 111).
As Crooks is speaking to Lennie, he reveals to him and the readers how lonely he actually is and how terrible it is to be alone. This can reveal how the character has an acute personality by catching on the fact that he does get treated unfairly and doesn´t have any company like the others do.
¨´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, all of you stink to me´¨ (Steinbeck 106 ).
Crooks lives with and experiences racism and discrimination in his daily life. He is entirely aware he gets less privilege because of his skin color as well. He says everyone in the bunk house stinks, including Lennie as a form of letting out anger for the way he is constantly being treated.
actions
¨Crooks had reduced himself to nothing, there was no personality, no ego- nothing to arouse either like or dislike. He said, ´yes, ma´am,´ and his voice was toneless¨ (Steinbeck 119).
After asking Curly´s wife to leave his bunk, where she shouldn't be anyway, she threatens him by saying she can ¨string him on a tree¨ as well as using derogatory terms. His reaction to her words shows his fragile persona.
¨Crooks seemed to come slowly out of the layers of protection he had put on. ´Was that the truth about the guys come back?´ he asked (Steinbeck 120-121).
He began to hide in his shame after Curly wife´s comments. I think that he then continues to ask about the guys returning trying to avoid everyone then entering his bunk. Again he is very fragile and delicate.
thoughts
¨Crooks face lightened with pleasure in his torture. ¨´Nobody can´t tell what a guy´ll do,´ he observed calmly. ´le´s say he wants to come back and can´t. S´pose he gets killed or hurt so he can´t come back´¨ (Steinbeck 109 ).
Crooks is not too familiar with Lennie yet and him knowing that he is one of the (new) men, he just wants to get back at the men on the ranch as a whole. When getting a chance to actually speak to one of the men he takes all the anger and sadness out on Lennie.
¨ ´Sometimes he gets thinkin´ an´ he got nothing to tell him what so and what ain´t so... he can´t turn to some other guy and ast him is he sees it too. He can´t tell. He got nothing to measure by´¨ (Steinbeck 111 ).
Crooks is recalling times when he had no one to turn to. He sees how much Lennie relies on and needs George, not only as a companion but also as a friend, after taunting him a bit. He soon realizes he has no such realtionship.
effect on others
¨ ´Lennie stood over him, ´What you supposin for? Ain´t nobody goin to suppose no hurt to George´ Crooks removed his glasses and wiped his eyes with his fingers. ´Jus set down,´ he said. ´George ain´t hurt´¨ (Steinbeck 110).
After messing with Lennie for quite a while, Lennie begins to get defensive and stands over Crooks. Again, he does this as a form of getting back at the men on the ranch in whole. Crooks begins to reassure Lennie that George is coming back because of how scared Lennie visibly becomes. I think Crooks saw how big Lennie actually is and begins to get intimidated.
looks
¨His shirt was out of his jeans in back. In one hand he held a bottle of liniment, and with the other, he rubbed his spine. Now and then he opened a few drops of the liniment into his pink palmed hand and reached up under his shirt to rub again¨ (Steinbeck 105 ).
Crooks is to take care of himself alone; he does not even have anyone to help with his medicine. This can show how he is a more reserved person but not that he necessarily want to be. He does not have anyone to relate to and relate with but takes good care of himself.
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