The Real Crooks

               Crooks is a stable hand works with the ranch horses. He lives by himself because he is the only black man on the ranch. Crooks likes to keep his room neat, but he has been so beaten down by loneliness. He is so lonely that if anyone is kind to him, he is very suspicious about that person. He has been named Crooks because of his crooked back (caused my the kicking of a horse). On the inside, Crooks is thinking that he needs friends and people to get along with/hang out with. On the outside, he is feeling like a person who hates people and everyone present at the time. He kind of hates Lennie too. If he gets a little bit of self confidence in himself, Curley's wife breaks in down with these mean and vicious comments and answers. Crook just "retreats" whenever this occurs. There is a big difference between the outside Crooks and the inside. On the inside, he thinks that he does indeed want friends and to hang out with people that he gets along with. On the outside, he acts that he doesn't want to be with people and that he hates people. I think this is happening because Crooks probably thinks that he is nothing on the farm, so he doesn't try to fit in or partake in any conversations.