Character Analysis Of Crooks In 'Of Mice And Men'

Unlike other ranch hands, Crooks own some personal properties, “Crooks possessed several pairs of shoes, a pair of rubber boots, a big alarm clock and a single-barreled shotgun. And he had books, too; a tattered dictionary and a mauled copy of the California civil code for 1905. There were battered magazines and a few dirty books on a special shelf over his bunk. A pair of large gold rimmed spectacles hung from a nail on the wall above his bed.” ( “Of Mice and Men” pg.67). Particularly the books that he owns has indicate he’s intelligent, he is educated. Because of his race he had own a copy of California civil code, it shows that he wants to learn laws just to be aware when there’s any conflict happen and he would know which law he does have. It can also be ironic because the civil code at that time isn’t at all.

And he also described by, “His body was bent over to the left by his crooked spine, and his eyes lay deep in his head, and because of their depth seemed to glitter with intensity. His lean face was lined with deep black wrinkles, and he had thin, pain-tightened lips which were lighter than his face.” ( “Of Mice and Men pg.67) Crooks is named because he has a crooked back that cause by kick from horse and is the stable hand who takes care of the horses and because he is the only black man on the ranch he lives by himself in his own bunk, which it suggest