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OMAM - Chapter 4 - In Crooks's Room - Coggle Diagram
OMAM - Chapter 4 - In Crooks's Room
Who
Lennie
Crooks
Candy
Curley's wife
Where / When
Crooks's room
Evening, after work
Separate from the bunkhouse
What
Lennie visits Crooks
Crooks talks about loneliness
Candy and Lennie share the dream
Crooks briefly joins the dream
Curley's wife enters and destroys the mood
She threatens Crooks
Crooks withdraws from the dream
Why
Shows extreme loneliness
Shows power and cruelty
Shows how fragile hope is
Highlights racism and sexism
Shows how dreams collapse under reality
How
Setting
Crooks's room = segregartion
Contrast: dream vs reality
Curleys wife uses power through language
Cyclical structure
Ends where is began with Crooks alone
Themes
Loneliness
Power
Prejudice
Dreams
Isolation
Women
Quotes
"A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody"
"I could get you strung up on a tree so easy is ain't even funny"
"Think I dont like to talk to somebody even once in a while?"
Conetxt
Racism in 1930s America
Women had little power
Segregation was normal on ranches