Crooks

• How does Crooks view loneliness in chp 4?

  "I tell ya a guy gets too lonely an' he gets sick."
• How is Crook's racial discrimination described in chp 4?

  "I could get you strung upon a tree so easy it ain't funny."

  " Must be nice to have a room all to yourself this way."

  " The boss gives him hell when he's mad."

  " range of medicine bottles, both for himself and the horses."

  " but I can't play because I'm black."
• How is Crooks described physically in chp 4?

  "His body was bent over to the left by his crooked spine"

  "eyes lay deep in his head."

  "lined with deep black wrinkles"
• How is Crooks shown to have little power/influence in chp 4?

  "But the stable buck don't give a damn about that."

  " Crooks had reduced himself to nothing ... his voice was toneless."

  "what she says was true."

  " So it don't mean nothing..."
• How does Crooks perceive the American Dream?

  "Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land."

  " I seen hunderds of men... never a God damn one of 'em ever gets it."
• What does Crooks dream of?

  " the white kids come to play at our place, an' sometimes I went to play with them."

  " Crooks was looking across the room now, looking toward the window."
• How has Crooks coped with racial hardships? 


  "You got no right to come in my room...Nobody got any right in here but me."

  " a mauled copy of the California civil code."

  " Crooks possessed ... a single-barreled shotgun"
• How does chapter 4 suggest a cyclical life for Crooks?

  " he held a bottle of liniment" <-- start of chp 4

  "then he reached for the liniment bottle." <-- end of chp 4
• How is Crooks' job viewed as in chp 4?


  "being a stable buck and a cripple, he was more permanent than the other men"