This chapter opens up with the stable buck, Crooks, alone in his living quarters. All the main ranchers had gone into town to visit the local cat house. He was on his bunk rubbing ointment on his back when Lennie appeared in his doorway. They started to talk and eventually Crooks let Lennie inside. He started to play with Lennie's mind asking him questions like, "What if George went into town and never came back?" or "What if George got hurt?". This made Lennie angry so Lennie growled at Crooks and then sat down to coll off. Then Crooks starts venting his lonely feelings to Lennie. He also apologized to Lennie for messing with his head.
Later on Candy steps on in and joins their conversation. The conversation swayed over to the plan about that rabbits and the little farm, due to Lennie. He always wanted to talk about these things. Crooks doubted the man, and said they couldn't pull this off, but Candy and Lennie remained positive about the idea.
Then Curley's wife appeared. The men in the room didn't want to talk to her because they knew she meant trouble, because of her husband. Curley's wife knew this and she got upset/angry. She was also questioning the real story behind Curley's hand but the guys stuck with the cover story. Crooks knew this "meeting" was starting to escalate so he asked Curley's wife to kindly leave. Curley's wife instantly went into an offensive made and snapped on Crooks making his retreat onto his bunk. She then yelled a bit more at the others and left quietly but quickly. After this Crooks just asked everyone else to leave his quarters.
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