I don’t like Crooks very much. Even though Steinbeck portrayed Crooks as a kind man with “patient” eyes I still think Crooks find joy in other people’s misery from his first impression. For example in Lennie’s attempt at making friends with Crooks, Crooks finds his sensitive point, which is his loyalty to George, and Crooks makes Lennie doubt George. “Crooks’ face lighted with pleasure in his torture.” (70) In addition, he pushes people away not even knowing who they are. He is so used to white people discriminating against him because he is black that his thoughts were conditioned so that no white person would be any different and actually accept him and be nice to him. In the same moment when Lennie attempts to friend Crooks, Crooks says “Cause I’m black. They play cards in there, but I can’t play because I’m black. They say I stink. Well, I tell you, you all of you stink to me.” (67) One more thing about Crooks I don’t appreciate him talking badly about Candy, George and Lennie’s dreams about the farm. They have experience so many horrible things in their live that they deserve to have dreams, to have a happy place to go to and something to make their lives worth living.
I wonder why Curley and his wife got married; I don’t think their marriage would be a result of arranged marriage so maybe there was money involved. I was really happy that Lennie “got” Curley and it was funny to see that Curley would yield to any commands to save a face. He is similar to many people. An example would be Sara Palin when she made a mistake about Paul Revere and her campaign workers were caught changing the facts on Wikipedia.
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