The reader only gets a sense of how Crooks is treated in chapter 2 in a conversation between two characters, “Ya see the stable bucks a nigger” he is addressed to as nigger and not his name. Later the reader gets to know more about Crooks only in Chapter four. However he is only addressed by his name by Steinbeck in contrast to the other characters that also refer him to as nigger. Steinbeck does this to show the reader Crooks didn’t really have an identity in the ranch which also referred to the black race identity indirectly in the
The reader only gets a sense of how Crooks is treated in chapter 2 in a conversation between two characters, “Ya see the stable bucks a nigger” he is addressed to as nigger and not his name. Later the reader gets to know more about Crooks only in Chapter four. However he is only addressed by his name by Steinbeck in contrast to the other characters that also refer him to as nigger. Steinbeck does this to show the reader Crooks didn’t really have an identity in the ranch which also referred to the black race identity indirectly in the