Of Mice and Men - Crooks

Crooks is the Ranch 'Stable buck', he cares for all of the horses and mules on the ranch.

Crooks has a missing right hand, he is old and is incapable of doing most jobs on the ranch, reducing him to the most menial jobs like 'Swamping'.

He is the bosses son, an aggressive young man with a know reputation as a fighter.

He is a Migrant worker, regularly on the move, he rarely stays at one ranch for a long period of time.

He held up a shop once and stole $300 of goods

His full name is in fact Steve Crooks

He got kicked in the back by a horse once giving him a Crooked back

He is old and is made to do some of the most menial jobs on the ranch

He is black and subject to some racial discrimination

He has a disability of having a crooked spine and unable to perform some simple tasks

Crooks tells Lennie that George will desert him.

Crooks tells Lennie a scary horror story.

Crooks threatens to shoot Lennie if he tells anyone that he has had second helpings to the food

'.Crooks was a proud, aloof man... his eyes... seemed to glitter with intensity... he had thin, pain tightened lips'.

Crooks is a 'Tall, stoop shouldered old man'

Crooks is a 'small and quick, dark of face, with restless eyes and sharp, strong features'.

Because he is black

Because he has is own living area in the barn

He got kicked out after he got drunk and violent one night.