Segregation make Crooks lonely, which in turn makes him an unpleasant individual. For example, since Crooks is of African descent, he is considered inferior to the others and is forced to live away from everyone else and he shares with Lennie “I aint wanted in the bunk house cause I am black” (68). The segregation between the ranchers and Crooks isolates him from them causing a deep loneliness within him. Crooks also states that “guy gets too lonely an’ he gets sick” (73) this sickness Crooks describes is the lack of humanity and cruelty in Ranchers because of the loneliness. Crooks’s actions to other characters in this story are a direct representation of him being transformed into a unpleasant individual. When Lennie is in Crooks’s room,
