When Candy tells Crooks that he, Lennie, and George really do plan to get the farm, Crooks asks if he can with him. Why do you think Crooks changes his mind later?

Crooks feels so isolated and lonely that this little farm for the dispossessed sounds magical. Crooks, however, realises that this plan is unworkable and he would be of little use. A job for Crooks during a depression would be difficult to come by. The utopian farm dream feels very uncertain to him. Life in Crooks's world simply is not happy, he doesn't believe it is possible.