How Does Steinbeck Present Crooks

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Crooks - the “negro stable buck,” with a “crooked back where a horse kicked him.” This description emphasises his worthlessness and Steinbeck makes his colour perfectly clear to begin with, but it also shows that he is labelled by his disability suggesting the lack of respect he receives, and is defined by what he is seen as, and not by his name. Crooks often rubs is spine with a bottle of liniment to aid his injured back. He is in fact a skilful craftsman with a particular talent, and we as readers find that he is rather intelligent through Candy when he tell George that “He reads a lot. Got books in his room.” It is apparent that “being a stable buck and a cripple,” he is more “permanent than the other men,” and the racism during that era would make it difficult for him to get another job, and his permanence indicating his inability to achieve the American Dream. Steinbeck writes this to demonstrate the severity and commonness of racial segregation during this period that the mere colour of your skin would denote what you would achieve in your whole life and separate you from the rest of the community as “Crooks said darkly, ‘Guys don’t come into a coloured man’s room very much’.”
It is apparent that Crooks is lonely as “scattered about the floor were a number of personal possessions; for being alone,

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