In the book Of Mice and Men the story takes place on a ranch where the amount of respect you get is generally based upon the amount of physical labor you can do while working on the ranch John Steinbeck introduces us one of the characters Candy, who is a disabled older worker on the ranch who appears to be fine but the reader realizes he is lonely and feels useless on the ranch. Candy is one of the loneliest workers on the ranch and his best friend and probably only true friend was his dog that was shot by another worker. The reason Candy is described by Steinbeck is because he feels the need not leave out someone just because their disabled, and to not give less respect to someone just because their different. In the book Candy is made an
