It is a saturday night, and
is all alone in his room. because everyone but lennie and
went to town,
is bored and walks into the barn to see the
_ crooks acts irritated, but eventually strikes up a conversation with lennie,
during the conversation, lennie tells crooks about the dream of owning a farm.
doesn't believe that it will ever happened. he starts to question the relationship between
_and lennie. during this conversation, crooks asks lennie what he would do if george
got hurt. lennie gets very angry at the thought of
being harmed. seeing this and afraid
that he might get hurt by lennie, crooks tells him that
is fine.
a little later, candy shows up to talk to lennie about the
crooks again says that he
has seen many men with the same dream, and he says that they will not be able to buy the farm
because george is in town spending their money at a cathouse. but candy tells crooks that their money
is in the bank
_eventually buys into the dream and asks if he can join. he says
that he would work hard and for no pay.
while the three are talking,
shows up saying that she is looking for curley.
after
and crooks make it clear that she shouldn't be there, she complains that no one
will talk to her. she says that she is bored and that_
doesn't spend time with her. she
says that when
does speak to her, he talks only about
_. then, she
remembers that curley's
was smashed. she asks the three what happened to it.
tells her that curley got it caught in a
_she then looks at
and says that he was the machine.
asks her many times to leave. he says that she will get them fired if she doesn't leave.
then candy tells her that they need the money because they are going to buy a ranch. she laughs at
them and their dream. because they ask her to leave vehemently, she attacks
tells
_ that he she could get him lynched.
. she
she finally leaves when she hears the
coming back from
- george
shows up and finds out that
had told crooks about the dream. because george shows
his distaste in having a black man involved in their dreams,
tells them to forget about
his offer to