crooks dreams
‘if you guys want a hand to work for nothing…’
crooks good childhood
‘i went to play with them and some of them was pretty nice’
crooks intelligence
‘tattered dictionary and a mauled copy of the california civil code for 1905
crooks isolated
‘had his room in the harness room’
crooks racial abuse
‘i ain’t wanted in the bunkhouse cos im black’
loneliness 1
‘books ain’t no good a guy gets too lonely and he gets sick’
loneliness 2
‘maybe you can see now, you got george’