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Candy
® Candy’s main purpose in the novel is to represent social discrimination
and ageism as he shows what happens to old people in 1930s
American Depression, which was effectively get thrown away as they
were deemed useless.
® Candy suffers prejudice and verbal abuse by a few characters in the
play. He shows the reader what happens to an old man who is
coping with physical disability, loneliness, and fear of rejection.
® Candy acts as a guide to life on the ranch for George and Lennie
and the reader. We take Candy's views on board- Curley is disliked-
'always scrappy' and Curley's wife is a 'tart.'
QUALITIES:
Gossip:
® Candy is clearly lonely and so likes to gossip about others. In the novel
the theme of isolation drives all the characters in bad directions and
there’s a certain irony in the fact the oldest worker on the ranch is the
one gossiping as it most likely wouldn’t have been like that, so
perhaps it’s Steinbeck telling the reader not to judge people because
we are all capable of doing something different and prejudice is bad.
® Candy gives us infomation on all the characters before we meet
them and we have a suspicion that it isn’t all fact and instead a lot of
waffle
Frail & Powerless:
® His dog is a metaphor for him. He’s always getting left behind and
doesn’t go with the men whey they go into town, and he doesn’t join
in when Curley’s on the hunt for Lennie.
® Curley is old, weak, and disabled and always gets a ‘gut ache’ as well
as always scratching himself. He isn’t respected by others on the
ranch and can be seen as a burden in much respect.
® For one they execute his dog even with him objecting to it just
because Slim gives them the all clear. He clearly has no respect from
the others as they have to ask permission from Slim to get the job
done and it’s only because the dog smells that they want to kill him.
® He also buts in with George and Lennie’s dream and tries to impel it,
when really this isn’t what either man wants but he brings money, so
they had to agree.
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