After a long day of work out in the fields Slim, the head skinner, talks to George, saying,“I see the guys that go around on the ranches alone. That ain’t no good. They don’t have no fun. After a long time they get mean”(Steinbeck 20). He believes after a while loneliness takes over and makes people turn vile. They grow hollow on the inside and don’t let anyone help them. Crooks is alone most of the time in his room, or the barn, reading his books. He is an older black man with a crooked back from a horse accident. When Crooks talks to Lennie, he doesn’t put off a nice aura, he seems angry and mean with an undertone of sadness. He believes that he’s not aloud around the others just because of his skin color, since he was black they segregated
