Sympathy can be related to different types of opinions and other matters to society. Everybody has a different types of opinion or matter. Crooks is a sympathetic character because he's different than the others. They treat him different because of his race. “Crooks had retired into terrible protective dignity of the negro.”(80).. Crooks was named by his crooked back by a kick of a horse. His character was used as an image of discrimination in the south. “ She turned to him and scorned.”Listen nigger” she said. “You know what I could do to you if you open your trap?” Crooks stared hopelessly at her and then he sat on his bunk and drew it to himself.”(81) Curley's wife puts him in his place after he told for her to leave his room. Lennie
