Part four

While reading part four in Of Mice and Men, I further got to know about Crooks, the Negro stable buck. He expressed many of his inner thoughts by his speech. When Lennie enters Crooks solitude shed looking for the puppy, Crooks says "Well, go see your pup, then. Don't come in a place where you're not wanted" (69). Here he states to Lennie that people are not supposed to be where they are not wanted. This relates to Crooks and his inner feelings because earlier, he explained that the men on the ranch don't want him playing games with them because he is black. I think here, Crooks is trying to make Lennie feel bad by stating he isn't wanted there, possibly because Crooks wants Lennie to show empathy for him. Crooks later then asks Lennie "S'pose you didn't have nobody. S'pose you couldn't go into the bunkhouse and play rummy 'cause you was black..." (72). Here I can definitely tell that Crooks wants Lennie to view things his way. He wants him to understand the pain and sorrow in his true mind. Now that I really understand how hard Crooks wants one to feel his feeling and show empathy, I realized that he is really hurt about not feeling "wanted".