How Does Steinbeck Present Crooks Treatment Of Migrant Workers

Feeling Trapped Even With Company During the Great Depression, 24.9% of people in the nation's working force, almost exactly 12,830,000 were unemployed. From 1929 to 1941, the world faced a global stock market crash leading to 13 million civilians losing their jobs. This was called the Great Depression. Of Mice and Men takes place during this time. During the Great Depression, many workers lost their jobs. These people were called migrant workers. George and Lennie, two main characters in the novel, are migrant workers. In Steinbeck's novel, the author proclaims how Curley’s Wife, Crooks, and Candy feel betrayed by their dreams, resulting in loneliness, regret, and guilt. Like the recent global epidemic which isolated people from each other,

Crooks is portrayed as different from everybody else, not just because of his race, but also because of his disabilities. He gets the name “Crooks” because of his crooked back. His back makes him disabled, which results in him being looked down on as “not capable” as the others. As a result, this is another illustration of how he is separated and looked down upon by the other workers that cause him to be lonely and isolated from the rest of the farmers. “‘You got no right to come into my room. This is my room’” (Steinbeck 64). Crooks acted uninviting at first because he is so used to being left alone and having the label of being rude and cold to others. In reality, he is cold because of the way the others treat him and look at him. He opens up to Lennie about his life before this when they are both left behind by the group. He shows more than what people think he is. He comes off as mean and grumpy, when he snaps, “‘You got no right to come in my room.” When Lennie enters Crooks room he is first repugnant and cold, then he warms up and shares about his past life. In addition, Crooks opens when he reminisces, “I was born right here in