Omam essay crooks

Crooks is rejected because of his skin colour ‘I ain’t wanted because I’m black’ and he isn't allowed in the bunkhouse. As in the 1930 black and white people were segregated. He has a separate place to live as the men thought that they can catch diseases off him.

Steinbeck’s choice to feature Crooks in only one chapter highlights the depth of Crooks’ loneliness, revealing an African American man whose entire life existed in a time of segregation, illustrating him as the loneliest character in the novel.

Despite their attempts to change reality, a tragic loneliness prevails in the souls of many characters. Crooks, an African stable buck suffers from loneliness due to Racism; Curley’ wife is lonely because she is stereotyped; and Candy, an old man in his seventies, is lonely because people fail to understand his needs.

Although he still ask’s if their is room on the farm that George and Lennie are planning to get for him. What Crooks want most is a sense of belonging and to be treated equally like other men as he knows and wants his civil rights. He would like to enter the bunkhouse with the other men.