The character of candy is important on the grounds that he is accustomed to depicting the subject of dreams. He is effectively interested by the dream and quickly offers his money .This shows how dreams were infectious in 1930s America as dreams were the main things that farm laborers could hold on to and look forward to . This is a significant subject and is depicted all through the novel and maybe demonstrates Steinbeck's perspectives on dreams and their need in a period of forlornness and sadness as he had experience of the farm workers lives. All through the novel, Steinbeck uses Candy and his canine to depict an impactful message about friendship and the acknowledgment of old and incapacitated individuals in the society…
Candy has a lot in trust in George from him not being there nothing but a day. “I don’t know nothing that stinks as bad as an old dog. You gotta get him out,” says Carlson (Steinbeck 44). Candy doesn’t know that his dog stinks but Candy’s dog means so much to him and would be so upset if anything ever happened to his dog, because his dog has been around him ever since he was a puppy. I think that Candy doesn’t want to let go to his dog because he doesn’t really have anyone to talk to.…
Upon arriving at the ranch, Candy is the first person who Lennie and George encounter and interact with. As Lennie and George arrive, Candy is almost immediately added into the scene and helps to direct them in a direction that helps them to become familiar and overall more comfortable. Candy also shares his experiences with as well as his thoughts of various people on the ranch. These interactions created a view of Candy that caused me to perceive his character to be that of significant importance. Moreover, through continued conversation Candy seems to be one that Lennie and George can easily connect with.…
In the 1930s a worldwide depression hit countries all over the world; in the United States it is known as The Great Depression (Smiley). Of Mice and Men is about Lennie and George trying to make a living during The Great Depression while facing a world of cold-hearted people who will do anything to make it to the top. John Steinbeck uses victimization, internal conflicts, and detachment to show isolation and the need for companionship in his novel Of Mice and Men. John Steinbeck illustrates the effects of isolation and need for companionship through victimization in Of Mice and Men. Candy is one character who acquires being left behind or deserted frequently.…
, Candy's dog was old and “...walked a dragfooted sheepdog, gray of muzzle, with pale, blind old eyes…”. Later Candy agreed to put the dog out of its misery. Later in the book, Candy has shown George his saving of almost three hundred dollars, which Candy had saved up from working many years at the ranch and for compensation losing his hand. Thus this is why Candy is so lonely in the novella.…
Companionship is the way to happiness Joshua L. Liebman once remarked “ The primary joy of life is acceptance, approval, the sense of appreciation and companionship of our human comrades. Many do not understand that the need for fellowship is really deep as the need for food, and so they go through life accepting many substitutes for genuine, warm, simple relatedness.” Liebman and Steinbeck had the same idea of companionship. It comes out in the book Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck. In the book George was taking care of a guy named Lennie.…
Almost all of the characters feel lonely and isolated because of the characteristics they cannot control. Candy is an old, vulnerable, disabled swamper whose only friend is probably his dog. He is not as lonely when he had his dog with him, but then his dog is killed he realizes how futile he is. When Candy, Lennie, and George are in the bunkhouse, Candy…
Steinbeck presents Candy as an old man who has no one to talk to or keep him company, besides the dog. To him, the dog was more than an animal that struggled; it was a companion to share life with. When Carlson is talking to Candy he offers to kill his dog, Candy refused to answer. Candy stuck, and finally gave in to Carlson’s requests. He had the dog his whole life and now it was gone.…
Candy may be old and useless but, he’s a human being and no one has the right to kill another no matter how old they are. They always think he’s unable to do things because he’s old, even though he can do it, “I lost my hand right here on this ranch. That's why they give me a job swampin'.” (Steinbeck 29) Throughout the book Candy does not really talk to people, because he’s rejected by others, just like…
He owns an old sheep dog since it was a pup and he has a strong relationship with it. Candy loves the dog very much and wants to protect it from the other men. Candy is also lonely and his dog is the only real friend he has. He said, “You wouldn’t think to look at him now but he is the best sheep dog I ever seen.” (Steinbeck 44)…
The men on the ranch suggest, “get Candy to shoot his old dog (Steinbeck 45).” Through Candy’s eyes he sees his dog as a symbol of him. When the dog grew old, everyone on the ranch said he was useless and wanted to shoot him. Candy is scared they will feel the same way about him, that when he gets too old they will hurt, can, or possibly kill him. Candy also feels a sense of hopelessness.…
George expresses his and Lennie’s dream of getting a small farm together; Candy immediately says he will join in and give more than half of the money needed to seal the deal. “An’ they give me two hundred an’ fifty dollars ‘cause I los’ my hand. An’ I got fifty more saved up right in the bank, right now" (Steinbeck 59). He is willing to give every penny that he is worth just to join in on their dream and break his solid feeling of loneliness. All this time Candy used his dog as some kind of “shield” to hide his loneliness.…
Candy’s dog was a herder for him who helped Candy for mostly all of his life. After he reluctantly agrees for Carlson, a man who also works at the ranch, to shoot his dog, “For a moment he continued to stare at the ceiling, then he rolled slowly over and faced the wall and lay silent” (49). Candy is contemplating his decision, as portrayed in the quote. This gives an idea of how Steinbeck gave into isolation because of guilt and shame. This becomes loneliness as the isolation separates Candy from the activity of the other men.…
The book Of Mice and Men is staged in the great depression. The main character’s name is George and the sub character is Lennie. I feel like Candy is lonely because he is kind of excited when he meets the new people on the ranch, George and Lennie. I feel like candy is isolated and lonely because after the lost of his and his lost hand, “he is unable to feel wanted, once his dog is shot there is nothing left for him to live for. ”(jill d, paragraph 3)…
The main relationship that Candy has within the book is one with his dog, who mirrors him in mannerism, age and appearance. This is shown when the dog is about to be killed by Carlson who describes him as “old” that “he’s stiff with rheumatism” and that “he’s not good to you, Candy.…