Of Mice and Men
...He does not get along with the workers on his ranch, and is eager to fight them should he believe they are a threat to his image, or messing around with his wife. His character adds the perceived danger to the main characters throughout the novel. Slim, unlike Curley, is considered the local authority. He is large in stature as well as great in presents. He is respected by all the people on the ranch. He is sought out by men on the ranch to give advice, comfort, and words of wisdom at anytime. He is felt by the other ranch hands to be fearless, but sensitive, and clearly the best worker on the ranch. His role in the novel is to add understanding and awareness to the circumstances surrounding the ranch hands. He displays a degree of loneliness similar to Curley but in a different way, giving more understanding to the reader, the extent of loneliness the ranch hands experience and live with everyday. Crooks, a negro stable buck with a crooked spine, is the loneliest of all the men. His character shows a degree of prejudice that black men, in that time, lived with everyday. His character is given dignity, intelligence, and aloofness in an era when black men were not given considerations at all. He is separated from the other ranch hands because of his colour, but his character is allowed to quietly displays frustration, bitterness, and anger. ...