Candy is ‘a tall, stoop-shouldered old man. He was dressed in blue jeans’, the uniform of the ranch workers, ‘and carried a big push-broom in his left hand.’ His right hand is stated as simply a stump because he lost his hand in a ranch accident. Now the owners of the ranch keep him on as long as he can ‘swamp’ out or clean the bunkhouse. Candy gives Steinbeck an opportunity to discuss social discrimination based on age and disabled people during the time of the Great Depression. Candy represents what happens to everyone who gets old in American society: They are let go, canned, and thrown out of their jobs were they expected to look after themselves.
As the men are working on the fields all day Curley’s Wife has nothing to do but hang around. Her own way of solving this problem was to become flirtatious. This meant talking to the men more and wearing more makeup to get their attention. Curley’s Wife is portrayed through her appearance, conversations with other characters, and what other characters say about her. Curley’s Wife’s appearance and actions around the ranch workers portrays her to be trampy.
“Married two weeks and got the eye? Maybe thats why Curley’s pants is full of ants.” This suggests Curley can’t satisfy or keep up with his wife’s voracious sexual appetite and this makes Curley worried and stressed. He describes to them about how Curley’s Wife is known to give other men on the ranch ‘the eye’. Candy says, “ I seen her give Slim the eye” showing that Curley’s Wife is a flirtatious character however also boastful as she
I walk alone.” As sung in this Green Day classic, the men on the farm have known only solitude and hardship due to their inability to escape Naturalism’s clutches. George and Lennie thwart this cycle, however, by having one to look out for the other. George put it this way to Lennie. "Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family.
Oskar Dudkiewicz English Essay ; I'm going to compare the 2 protagonists named Lady Macbeth from Shakespeare and Curleys wife from Of mice and men . The social and historical context is important to establish because it affects both characters . They share some similarities ; but they also have some big differences such as , Lady Macbeth loves her husband where as Curleys wife hates her husband because he treats her like a comodity . Of mice and men is set in 1930s America after the Wall Street Crash which lead to the great depression . This caused mass unemployment and lots of people lost their jobs , they travelled to the countryside to find work on ranches .
Some men just suddenly jumped off the window and others just ran out of the mansion screaming. This had made Penelope sad and felt like giving up but her mother told her and made her understand that she doesn’t have to worry because her piggy appearance was not hers, it was her great grandfather’s nose and ears. A man named Vanderman, one of the man who took flight at first sight teamed up with Lemon(a tabloid reporter who spent his life stalking Wilhern family and had seen Penelope when she was a baby) to reveal and prove to everyone that they are not crazy and
When the unfeeling Carlson suggests that Candy's dog be put out of its misery, Candy abdicates the responsibility to Carlson. He tells George later that he should have shot his dog himself, foreshadowing George's decision to take responsibility for Lennie's death and "be his brother's keeper." Candy also plays a significant role in the dream, providing the money needed to make the down payment. Because of Candy, the dream almost becomes real. Candy's down payment causes George to believe that, perhaps, the dream can be realized.
Many unemployed men moved from the big cities to the countryside living in shanty towns in search for agricultural work. An estimated 30 000 people were 'on the road' wandering the countryside looking for work. There was, in fact, very little work available in the countryside, but there was always food, particularly rabbit, or 'underground mutton' as it was called. Uncertainty and insecurity was a feature of the depression years, and those fortunate enough to have a job lived with the fear that it could disappear overnight. Many could not understand the reasons for why hardworking, honest men could not find work.
Although she lived with her present husband, she still remembered every word in the letter which she thought she received from him.” I know it by heart now.” Mrs. Slade, who laughed to herself all that evening when her murder plot undergoes, is embodiment of hypocrisies and cruelty. In a short amount of time by very concise dialogue, the writer constructed successfully a jealous, cruel character, Mrs. Slade. Knowing her close friend fell in love with her fiance’, she hatched a murder plot up to get her rival out of the way. No one can image that when her furtive evil plan
Candy One of the book’s major themes and several of its dominant symbols revolve around Candy. The old handyman, aging and left with only one hand as the result of an accident, worries that the boss will soon declare him useless and demand that he leave the ranch. Of course, life on the ranch—especially Candy’s dog, once an impressive sheep herder but now toothless, foul-smelling, and brittle with age—supports Candy’s fears. Past accomplishments and current emotional ties matter little, as Carson makes clear when he insists that Candy let him put the dog out of its misery. In such a world, Candy’s dog serves as a harsh reminder of the fate that awaits anyone who outlives his usefulness.