Of Mice and Men: Crooks Flashcards
who?
- Stable buck
- support for the horses etc
- he has a ‘busted’ spine
- many characters are very offensive to him.
purpose?
- Tells Slim that Lennie is handling the pups.
- Crooks lets Lennie talk to him in Crooks own room when Lennie is in the Brothel
- Crooks taughnts Lennie
- Put back in place by Curley’s wife when she accuses him with rape
- Crooks is drawn in to the idea of the farm, but withdraws.
Description of Crooks being proud and aloof, intelligent. How he is looked down on.
- ‘Nice fella too. Got a crooked back where a horse kicked him.’
- ‘The boss gives him hell when he is mad.’
- ‘He reads a lot, got books in his room. ‘
Crooks life is dominated by pain?
- ’ Crooks was a proud aloof man … his eyes… seemed to glitter with intensity… he had thin pain tightened lips.
Crooks is the victim of racial prejudice?
- ‘Iain’t wanted in the bunk house… ‘Cause im black’
Crooks has enough pride and independence to stand up to Curley’s wife.
‘I had enough, he said coldly. You got no rights comin in a colored man’s room.’
The futility of Crooks stands shows how little real power a black person has in the world of this novel.
‘Crooks had reduced him self to nothing. There was no personality.’
Crooks structural role in the novel is to appear two-thirds of the way to foreshadow the events that are going to occur.
‘You guys just kiddin’ yourself. You’ll talk about it a hell of a lot, but you won’t get no land.’
Crooks is very negative on life because of his social status.
- ‘Nobody gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land’.
INFO WHIT:
- Young ranch hand
- Finds letter in a magazine written by an ex-worker on the ranch.
- He is very superficial, and has no real involvement in the book
- He is sent to tell the sheriff about the murder of Curley’s wife.
