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Take notes on the analysis Analysis of Chapter 4 Take notes on the analysis

Crooks Racial discrimination Physical handicap, like Candy Lonely-set apart from the others on the farm Isolated-because of race Sleeps in stables-not allowed in “White” quarters to play cards, visit, etc. He aids to Steinbeck’s central thesis Ther reader already witnessed how the world conspires to crush men who are debilitated by physical or mental infirmities.

Crooks Cont. With Crooks, the same unjust, predatory rule holds true for people based on the color of their skin. Crooks race-leaves him powerless-Curley’s wife says how quickly she could have him lynched. Complicated, believable character He condemns Lennie’s talk of the farm, but wants to be a part of it. He is bitter about his exclusion from the men, bit is grateful for Lennie’s company. Difficult for Crooks to conceal his pleasure with anger. Craves companionship but cannot help himself from lashing out

Steinbeck has already implicitly contrasted the lonesome, individualistic existence of most of the farmhands with the more collective, communal attitude of George, Lennie and Candy. In Chapter Four, this contrast becomes still more marked. Indeed, as Crooks, Candy and Lennie - the three mentally or physically impaired "outcasts" of the farm - discuss their dream of living "off the fat of the land". For a moment, they imagine a life of freedom from prejudice and racism, in which each man works for "just his keep" regardless of color or disability

It's fitting that the three virtual servants of the farm - the black man, the swamper, and the mentally disabled workhorse - collaborate in this dream. They are the downtrodden workers of society - linking to form a socialist utopia. Or, at least, fantasizing about such a link. they desire merely to alter their own lives, not the lives of humanity at large . By the chapter's end, Crooks has utterly abandoned his dream of farm life. It's also necessary to note that this fantasy farm does not seem to include women. Indeed, Curley's wife emerges in this chapter as both more complex and more loathsome than before. She is, on the one hand, much more than a one-dimensional harlot. Indeed, she literally interrupts them at the height of their fantasizing. She is the snake - or, more to the point, the Eve - in the garden, the fact of life that makes a peaceful farm life so difficult, if not impossible, to obtain.

At the same time, at least she knows herself At the same time, at least she knows herself. We are allowed a glimpse into Curley's wife's discontent, and her frustration with life in some ways mirrors that of the three enfeebled men who have been left behind. She is especially comparable to Crooks; both are obviously intelligent and perceptive of themselves as well as others, and both contain a deep bitterness stemming from their mistreatment. The one is mistreated because he is black, the other because she is a woman. Both have a bleak and accurate insight into the fundamental nastiness of people. Curley's wife understands the deep-laden competitive urge for possessing women which tears men apart, and she knows that she is cast as the villain in this eternal game of one-upmanship.