He pulled out his shirt in back, poured a little liniment in his hand…and slowly started rubbing his back” (83). The end of chapter four appears to the reader repetition of mistakes. This quote shows that his understandable fears and struggles about how people view him as a black man is no longer visible past the prejudice that he has always experienced. This idea was confirmed when Crooks stated, “I didn’ mean it. Jus’ foolin’. I wouldn’ want to go no place like that” (83). When Curley’s wife said that he could be lynched or even worse, Crooks’ fear got the best of him and thought that joining their dream was not going to be any different because Crooks will always be a black man. In Of Mice and Men, Crooks undergoes many struggles but never changes his ways. In the beginning Crooks tells stories of racism he had to go through as a child, and those stories multiplied as he grew older. All of the conflicts that Crooks is facing all goes back into him being a colored man with a cripple
He pulled out his shirt in back, poured a little liniment in his hand…and slowly started rubbing his back” (83). The end of chapter four appears to the reader repetition of mistakes. This quote shows that his understandable fears and struggles about how people view him as a black man is no longer visible past the prejudice that he has always experienced. This idea was confirmed when Crooks stated, “I didn’ mean it. Jus’ foolin’. I wouldn’ want to go no place like that” (83). When Curley’s wife said that he could be lynched or even worse, Crooks’ fear got the best of him and thought that joining their dream was not going to be any different because Crooks will always be a black man. In Of Mice and Men, Crooks undergoes many struggles but never changes his ways. In the beginning Crooks tells stories of racism he had to go through as a child, and those stories multiplied as he grew older. All of the conflicts that Crooks is facing all goes back into him being a colored man with a cripple