The ranch boss may pay for his personal medicine, as he should. Besides his food and shelter, Crooks may only receive around twenty dollars a month in cash wages.

Why is George angry with Lennie and with Candy when he finds them in Crooks’ room? He stops talking and showing emotion because she threatened to have him killed.

Crooks’ bunk was a long box filled with straw, on which his blankets were flung. Crooks had his apple box over his bunk, and in it a range of medicine bottles, both for himself and for the horses. There were cans of saddle soap and a drippy can of tar with its paint brush sticking over the edge.

2. What does Crooks offer in return for joining George, Lennie, and Candy on the dream farm? Crooks offers to work for free on the farm if George allows Crooks to accompany them.

Scattered on the floor are a number of other personal possessions, an indication that no one else enters this room because these things have not been disturbed. This room was swept and fairly neat, for Crooks was a proud, aloof man. He kept his distance and demanded that other people keep theirs.

Because he feels lonely. Why is George unhappy when he returns to the ranch? Lenny and Candy told Crook about their dream farm. Who said, “I could get you strung up on a tree so easy it ain’t funny?”

What does Crooks’ bunk tell you about him? He is tolerant because his bunk is so small and intelligent because he has a lot of books.

He has been the center of the story as he goes through his life and it pin points how he dwells and handles his life in a series of consequences. During his free time, his hobby or the usual thing that he does that finds his interest is reading which he mostly does when he does not do anything or if he is not busy.

What does George tell Lennie to calm him down before he shoots him? To calm Lennie down, George re-tells the story of how they are going to get a farm and how Lennie will be able to tend the rabbits. 3. How do Curley and Carlson assume that Lennie met his death?

What did Crooks mean when he said to Lennie: “You got no right coming. He has been isolated and abused for a long time at the ranch. Maybe he sees that Lennie, being simple, will not judge him as inferior because of the color of his skin.

What does Crooks say will happen to Lennie if George doesn’t come back? Crook says they will take him to an asylum and tie him up.

Crooks is jealous of Lennie’s friendship with George because he has someone to talk to and Crooks gets bored all the time and he wishes he has someone to be around all the time. How does Crooks fill his loneliness? He fills in his loneliness by reading his books. You just studied 12 terms!

What does Crooks say to Lennie about loneliness? Crooks tells Lennie that he experienced loneliness as a child due to his race and was often not allowed to play with neighborhood kids. He says to Lennie that “George can tell you screwy things, and it don’t matter,” (pg.

What does Lennie tell Crooks, even though he probably shouldn’t have? Lennie tells Crooks about the land George and Candy are trying to achieve, the American Dream. 7.

Crooks admires the close, protective relationship that is shared by Lennie and George. He says that he has never seen two guys travel together and look out for each other in this way.

We see here that Crooks’ loneliness is eating him alive. The black “stable buck,” Crooks, who is marginalized from the society of the other men because he is not allowed to sleep in the bunkhouse as they do, spends lonely nights in the barn, where he has fashioned a room of his own near the stalls for the mules.

Since he feels ostracized, Crooks has developed a justifiably indignant demeanor. If he can not share the same space and activities as the other men, he feels more inclined to be guarded and protective of his own space: This room was swept and fairly neat, for Crooks was a proud, aloof man.

Candy is pressured into letting Carlson shoot his dog. Where does George go at night without Lennie? A ***** house.

He has had to give in to Curley’s wife and he feels the fact that he is completely powerless. You can see this symbolized in the fact that he starts putting liniment on his back (his disability) after she leaves. The reason his attitude changes is that Curley’s wife has reminded him that he is a nothing.

Why does Crooks stop his taunting of Lennie? Crooks stops taunting Lennie because Lennie starts getting hostile towards Crooks. Crooks sees Lennie as dangerous. Crooks tells Lennie he did not mean to scare him.

George considers what will happen to Lennie: They could lock Lennie up, but he’d starve, and people would be mean to him. Candy says they need to let Lennie get away because Curley will lynch him, but George realizes how hopeless escape would be.

Candy responds to Crooks by saying, Sure they all want it. Everybody wants a little bit of land, not much. Jus’ som’thin’ that was his.

Summary and Analysis Chapter 4. It is Saturday night, and Crooks is alone in his room when Lennie appears in the door. Candy appears and talks with Lennie about the rabbits. Crooks interrupts and says they are kidding themselves about this farm because George is in town spending their money at a whorehouse.