Crooks is a very sympathetic character. At the beginning of chapter 4, the narrator describes Crook’s bunkhouse, and then the man himself. He cannot sit straight, because “his body was bent over to the left by his crooked spine” (67). Every night he rubs liniment into his muscles, which must hurt due to his injury. The author writes, “he flexed his muscles against his back and shivered” after he’s done putting on the ointment (67). Lennie sees Crooks’ light on and comes into talk, but Crooks is so bitter that he doesn’t want Lennie to visit. He tells Lennie, “I ain’t wanted in the bunkhouse, and you ain’t wanted in my room” (68). Crooks then starts talking to Lennie because he won’t leave and he tells Lennie, “They play cards in there, but I can’t …show more content…
In the book when George and Lennie are introduced right in the beginning the author introduces them with a problem, the problem that the bus driver left them far away from their destination making them stay the night outside. While George and Lennie are in their camping spot George starts to tell Lennie how he wishes he did not have Lennie to worry about saying, “If I was alone I could live so easy. I could go get a job an’ work, an’ no trouble”(11) because Lennie is always getting them both in trouble like in their last job and how Lennie “can’t keep a job and you lose me ever’ job I get”(11) making him get angry telling Lennie, ”I could get along so easy and so nice if I didn’t have you on my tail”(7) because Lennie “do bad things and I got to get you