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Crooks plays a significant part in the novel, "Of Mice and Men." Crooks is considered the lowest man on the totem pole on the ranch. Crooks desperately needs companionship and equality. He has the intelligence of any of the workers, but they don't listen to him ....

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.... "had his bunk in the harness room." His room is full of "a number of personal possessions" that had accumulated over time. Crook's room is his own private place where he is in control but he hates being alone. The true loneliness comes out when Lennie comes into Crook's room. Crooks explains to Lennie that "guys don't come into a colored man's room very much." This shows the reader that he has been casted out. Crooks is angry at society for oppressing him so severely. Lennie is rare, because though he is a white man, he is still weaker than Crooks, and Crooks takes the opportunity to pass along some abuse, to take it out on someone else. He t ....