Crooks is lonely because he's black and no one wants to be near him. This was a time when blacks were segregated from whites. No one ever went to visit him. Also, because he's black, he has his room out in the stable with the horses. The other (white) guys have their bunks in a one room house type of building.
While working on the ranch the men form special bonds with eachother. Candy, who sweeps by himself, cannot have these friendships with the other men because he does not spend time with them. He is all alone with a job for only one. Although the boss was nice enough to let him keep his job, Candy still suffers because of his lack of friends. For fun the men play horseshoes, but Candy is not involved with this game.
I know now”. ( page 70. Crooks) There is also a lot of segregation showed throughout this novel. Crooks is segregated from everything in the world. He has his own small room attached to the side of the stable where he was isolated from the rest of the workers.
This chapter begins with the description of a place; this time, it is Crooks' room in the stable. Crooks, the black stable hand, lives by himself in the harness room, a shed attached to the barn. Injured when a horse kicked him, Crooks has a body that is bent to the left because of his crooked spine. The stable hand has many horse care items in his room, as well as personal belongings he keeps because he is a more permanent tenant. It is a room for one man alone, Crooks is always alone, in a discriminatory point of view, Crooks does not feel wanted, Lennie asks Crooks why does he feel that way and he answers, “Cause I'm black.
Crooks Crooks feels isolated and is ostracised by society. ‘He kept his distance and demanded that other people keep theirs.’ This suggests that he is a private man who isn’t very sociable but it is also the laws of segregation that effects Crooks’ social life as well. While most of the other workers on the farm were out in town, Crooks is forced to stay by himself. All the rest of the rest of the workers share bunk houses but Crooks is again isolated from people, as he lives on his own in the harness room. In this way, Crooks is downgraded to second class to the white men, and seems to be treated with the same respect the horses are treated with.
Crooks lives/sleeps in a shed attached to the barn. Crooks was also excluded from other things at the ranch. While the rest of the workers are in town, Crooks stays behind claiming he isn’t wanted. Having become accustomed to being excluded, Crooks has become a loner himself as if to accept his isolation or to have some control over it.
Consequently, he bitterly guards his enforced privacy, saying to Lennie, “This here’s my room…I ain’t wanted in the bunkhouse, and you ain’t wanted in my room.” He is regretting the way that he taunted Lennie, “A guy needs somebody – to be near him” and “a guy gets too lonely” and “A guy sets alone out here at night.” It is implied that Crooks is thrilled when Lennie and Candy come into his room and are his companions for a night. Due the ways Crooks is constantly treated with rudeness and arrogance, Crooks turns the table and torments innocent Lennie which can make the
She is a temptress who disturbs the fraternity of the men, for whenever she enters the bunkhouse, or at least stands in the doorway, preventing the men's passage, Curley's wife is a source of tension: The men worry that they will succumb to her physical allure; they worry that Curley will appear and become jealous and enraged against them. Once she has tempted Lennie, he sins and kills her--albeit accidentally. At any rate, the death of Curley's wife is the end of the "dream" for Lennie and George and Candy. There can be no Eden for them as George must kill Lennie before he is caught and his soul destroyed. With the death of the child-like Lennie, the innocent dream of having a ranch is also
Mockingbirds are innocent in the sense that they do nothing wrong, but yet they are destroyed by vicious gossip and painful actions. Tom Robinson was seen as guilty and destroyed by false accusations, leading him to an early death. Boo Radley is seen as a fearful, dreadful person through town gossip and put through years of torment from Maycomb citizens. In the end, Boo finds the courage to leave his house to save Jem, only making rumours start again. Tom and Boo are both social outcasts, yet live in completely separate worlds.
Values of Companionship Imagine a life with no one to talk to, being ignored, and being treated unfairly. This is how Crooks lived like in John Steinbeck’s novella, Of Mice and Men. Crooks didn’t have any companions so he acted differently than the characters with companions do in the book. While Crooks was more independent, George and Lennie relied on each other. The importance of companionship is shown by the characters with companions having different personalities than those without.