Sympathy For Crooks In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

In the Book Of Mice And Men You will read about a lot of characters who deserve sympathy. Although Curley’s wife and Lennie are characters who deserve pity, Crooks is the most sympathetic character, his race, bad back , and is very lonely. He's not the only sympathetic character in the book pretty much every character deserves some pity for example Curley’s Wife and Lennie deserve some pity. One of the reasons the reader feels bad for Crooks is because he is separated from the rest of the ranch workers because of his race. The narrator explains, ¨Crooks, the Negro stable buck, had his bunk in the harness room: a little shed that leaned off the barn.” Also due to his race he is extremely lonely. When Lennie goes to talk to Crooks in the barn, at first, Crooks doesn't want him there. Eventually, though, he begins to open up and he tells Lennie, “I tell Ya guy gets too lonely and he gets sick” (73). Not only is he separated due to his race and is lonely he has to deal with a bad back. The narrator writes, “His body was bent over to the left

For example, earlier in the book George is lighting up a fire Lennie asks “Tell me like you done before, about the rabbits.”. The reason why Lennie is asking George is for George to tell the story of how they will buy a house with a farm full of animals including (his favorite part ) the Rabbits. One of the biggest reasons he deserves the most sympathy is that at the end his best friend kills him at the end of the book. George was mad at Lennie so George pulls out a gun “And George Raised the gun and steadied it, and he brought the muzzle of it close to the back of Lennie’s head.” That was a very sad moment for me because this is one of the main characters and is the 2nd character you meet in the beginning of the story, and all of that ends by George shooting him in the head. I think after all of that, he deserves some sympathy (if he was still alive