Crook

cruel, helpless, or seek for attention. Crooks is one of the loneliest people; he is always cruel to everyone. He is isolated from everybody and lives in the barn. When Lennie comes into Crooks’s room, Crooks says, “You got no right to come in my room. This here’s my room. Nobody got any right in here but me” (Steinbeck 68) because he doesn’t think that anyone wants to talk to him except for Slim. He thinks that just because his race nobody respects him. Crooks is being cruel to Lennie by…

When the stock market crashed in October of 1929, nobody could have predicted the amount of struggling and helplessness Americans found themselves in during The Great Depression. During this time, many businesses failed and some people became migrant workers, traveling across the country in search of a job, a place to stay, or a friend or family member to help them. Sometimes these workers were lonely due to discrimination, as they were not respected by anyone but those worse off than themselves…

Earlier in the novel, emotionally neglected by Curley, she attempts to alienate her loneliness by visiting the men in Crooks room. When Crooks demands that Curley's wife leave, she snaps, "Listen, n*****. You know what I can do to you if you open your trap?" (80) Because of her position as the boss’s daughter-in-law, one word from Curley’s wife could put anyone, especially Crooks due to his racial status, on bad terms with the boss. This status gives her power over the workers at the ranch,…

Lennie. Curley’s wife can’t talk to anybody because her husband will get mad but she even admits that she doesn’t like Curley and that he is mean. In John Steinbeck’s Of mice and men Losing someone in life can make you become lonely. Even Candy, Crooks, And even Curley’s wife showed us that. They all lost someone or more than one person in their life and now they just feel lonely. This can happen in…

and for some, it develops over time. The best way to avoid loneliness is to occupy your time with someone or something else you care about. In John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men Candy, Crooks, and George open up and share their feelings of loneliness caused by different things. From the death of Candy’s dog to Crooks being all alone and George killing Lennie you can truly understand how you must devote your time to something or loneliness can drive you crazy. After the death of his dog Candy is…

The American Dream is a characteristic spirit of an era that manifested its attitudes and aspiration meaning since the idea of the American Dream was constructed the dream to achieve the American dream never died, it just moved from one generations to generations evolving and adapting. As shown in ‘Of Mice and Men’ (1937) and ‘Death of a salesman’ (1949) the dreams they have is to own a property both Willy, Lennie and George and making money. Furthermore the novella and the play were written…

After its death, Candy struggles against loneliness by sharing in George and Lennie 's dream.” (Cliffsnotes, 2015) Loneliness took it 's toll on most of the characters in the book, Lennie, George, Candy, Curley 's Wife, Crooks, and Curley. “Since Lennie cannot think as quickly as the other men, he is often set aside and isolated from them.” (World Of Teaching, 2015) Lennie feels like he has no one to talk to because he feels like no one could understand him but George but…

shadow, it is cold, and dark, but is always there. There are a few examples in the story, where there is discrimination. It is a large problem in the story. When George and Lennie arrive, Candy points out the stable buck. He says that his name is Crooks and that he is African American. Since he is African…

In John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck represents loneliness in almost every character in the book. The most major character to show loneliness is George. There is many times in the first few chapters where George would cut a deck of cards and lay out a solitaire hand, sometimes he would play other times he would just leave it. When George is talking to Candy, Steinbeck writes “George cut the cards again and put out a solitaire lay, slowly and deliberately”(Steinbeck 28). George would…

Of Mice and Men shows us three examples and three sides of human nature. Steinbeck's book shows that people often believe that they are socially higher than others. Of Mice and Men also tells us that two men had a dream to buy land. In real life, everyone has a dream of what they want to accomplish. Finally, Of Mice and Men reflects Social Darwinism in "Survival of the Fittest." In real life, people often believe that they are socially more powerful. Consequently, treating some as…