Crooks

Crooks is African American and he lives in the barn where he works because the people in the bunkhouse don't want to live with an African American man. Everyone else on the farm is very prejudice so they don't let Crooks into the bunkhouse because he is black and the rest of them are white. Hence, he is very aware of the racism towards him with everybody in the bunkhouse, and doesn't like white people because they don't like him. So he doesn't allow any of the other of the white farm hands into his barn. He tries to bring down George, Lennie and Candy's American Dream with the negative comments and telling them they won't make it, but deep down, he's only jealous that he doesn't have that type of bond with anybody working on the farm. He's lonely and he wishes he wasn't. He's also jealous that they have a dream at all, he's not aspiring to do anything because he knows he would be looked down on from racism to whatever he does. Crooks also has back problems for which he has to rub liniment on it because his back causes him much pain.