This highlights the main theme of the novel: loneliness. Living alone in his room Crooks craves the company of others but, because of his coloured skin and the era he lived in, he is shown to be separated from the other ranch workers and thus suffering from loneliness more than his colleagues. Because of his skin colour, Crooks is shown to have “kept his distance and demanded that other people kept theirs.” Steinbeck describes how crooks wants others to stay away from him and reciprocates their feelings towards him but, later in the novel, he reveals that he is very lonely all by himself and would like to have someone to talk to. However, because he is so used to being shunted away by society, he pushes everyone away from him before they have the chance to do the same, portraying him as a “proud, aloof man”. Again, this fact highlights Crooks' loneliness and, even though he has convinced himself he doesn’t need anyone else, he knows the pleasure of having company and this is something that can’t be replaced by the many possessions he has acquired.
Crooks is wary of being exploited even though he has not much to lose but it seems, like everyone else on the ranch, he is isolated by others and even himself because he is coloured. This links in with the 1930's america Great depression where people isolated each other. This also links in with the racism at the time where coloured people were thought as inferior to the white men. These two facts suggest it was difficult to live at those times
The word "unpainted" suggests that the inhabitants of the bunkhouse are quite lazy because they can't be bothered to paint the walls. This may lead to the reader thinking that the inhabitants of the bunkhouse don't want to work and that don't want to do anything but laze around so they may dislike the inhabitants. The reader may also be eager to go to the bunkhouse and paint the walls because they don't like things to be boring and they want things to be perfect. Steinbeck presents the bunkhouse inhabitants as very unkempt and uneducated individuals. You find this out because of the dialogue between George and Candy as well as the description of the bunkhouse in the passage; "Positively kills lice, roaches and other scourges.
Being a nigger, Crooks is hated by the whites at the ranch and he resents this. As he says "If I say something, why it's just a nigger sayin' it" and this shows his anger at being pushed to the side. Being troubled has made him seem cruel and gruff, but also has turned him to self-pity and the idea that he is a lesser human. He says to Lennie, "You got no right to come in my room.....You go on get outa my room. I ain't wanted in the bunkhouse and you ain't wanted in my room."
That could have been one of his roles In the novel to critise society because people are only known to travel together or don’t have anyone to travel with. Carlson is one of the most common people of the day as he keeps him self to him self and lacks a knowledge of companionship, friendship and love towards others. Carlson seems to be nothing more than meets the eye as we find out how insensitive he is towards others we find this out when he kills candy’s dog. All he seems to do was critise the dog ‘’stinks like hell, damn near blind’’ the words he says seem to be
Lennie is mentally weak, George can’t reach his dream, and Curley resents being a smallish man and has napoleon complex. Weakness is simply a reality for everyone who lives on the ranch. On a ranch full of strong men, weakness is not really accepted, and people get criticized because of it. Because characters often know their weaknesses, they’re quick to try to cover for them, which spell confrontation. It’s a like bullying, characters weaknesses makes them feel insecure about themselves, so they fight and judge others to avoid having their flaws seen by
He is ignored by everyone on the ranch because he is black , this makes his character bitter and mean"Books ain't no good . A guy need somebody to be near him . "Crooks mainly keeps his distance between himself and the other men at the ranch to ensure he doesn't cause any problems . When Lennie approaches him in his bunk house his first reaction to him is fuelled by envy by his and Georges friendship .Crooks teases Lennie and makes out that George wont be coming back for him *quote*. He only does this to Lennie to show him what it like for him having nobody there and how he needs a companion , like Lennie and George ."
Due to not having families in the ‘new world’ these colonists worked for themselves, and themselves alone, causing their motivation to work to be very low. Resulting from their lack of motivation, and their failure to worry about important survival aspects, was a relatively low life expectancy in the region. The Virginians also lived in bad conditions, which ultimately caused large death tolls, and they didn’t do anything to help each other (F).The unhealthy, deathly conditions also increased the number of men who needed to be shipped into the colony. The fact that the people of the Chesapeake region were solely looking to find gold, that wasn’t actually there, caused the settlements to be of a more temporary state. Because of this temporariness, settlers didn’t find it important to set up schools or churches in this area, which led to lower levels of both religious and academic education.
Taxpayers dislike money going to prisons. Law-abiding people do not have much in common with prisoners. Businesses don’t sell much to prisoners. Prison industries inside prison lose money and cannot succeed with government control. The media prefer sensational stories about egregious criminal behavior.
They often lived in small cabins regardless of how many there were. They live away from the master’s house because they were not seen as equal. Slaves were worked very hard and had very little rights. Slaves also lived in dirty and uncomfortable quarters. For the most part northerners felt this treatment was immoral.