In section four, I focused on Crooks, an African American stable buck. He had deep black wrinkles, and his lips were a lighter brown than the rest of his body. In the beginning it seemed to me like Crooks wanted to keep his distance from others Towards the first part of this section, as Lennie enters Crooks room, Crooks frowns, and asks him to leave saying, "You got no right to come in my room. This here's my room. Nobody got any right in here but me." This tells me that Crooks isn't too social and would rather keep to himself. As I read on, I find that Crooks isn't too bad, and gives in to others fairly quick.I think the reason why Crooks keeps to himself is because, he is discriminated against on the farm. The men don't allow him to play cards with them, and he has to just sit and wait in his room. I feel that Crooks dislikes being unequal, so he just stays away. As I continued reading, Crooks began to torture Lennie. He repeatedly teased him by saying,"S'pose George went into town tonight and you never heard of him no more." I believe that Crooks is somewhat nice, but isn't careful enough around people's ideas or feelings. The book later reads that Crooks is devastated that he doesn't have anybody to share his life with, that he is forced to sit in his room while everyone is having fun playing games, because he is black. Crooks got extremely mad when Curly's wife came into his room and started flirting with them, but then acting like they were at fault.

Why do you think Crooks is somewhat mean and rude to others, especially whites?