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Part 4 loneliness in Of Mice and Men

Throughout part 4 of Of Mice and Men, Crooks keeps asking Lennie questions about if George would leave him alone. For example, '" Wells s'pose, jus' s'pose he don't come back. What'll you do then?"(72). Later in the conversation Crooks "'S'pose you didn't have nobody. S'pose you couldn't go into the bunkhouse and play rummy 'cause you was black"'(72). He keeps asking questions about loneliness. He even goes into being lonely and being black. He starts talking about himself and how he feels. He just starts saying how he feels because he hasn't had anyone to talk to and anyone willing to have an actual conversation. He says, "' I tell ya a guy gets too lonely an' he gets sick."' (73).When Candy comes in and starts talking about the rabbits and the land Crooks starts off saying the it is crazy, but Crooks starts to think about it and says, "'. . . If you . . . guys would want a hand ...

The Smelly Dog

During the second  part of Of Mice and Men, I noticed that slim and carlson acted pretty nice. However, they were very open and had no compassion, "' I gotta a pair of punks on my team that don't know a barley bag from a blue ball."'. he acts like he doesn't care about them and later in the book he is the same way about candy's dog. He wants to kill the dog because he does not like the smell of the dog.

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