“Guess I’ll finish this tomorrow; hey, I wonder where that old guy went?” He looked around as he loaded his tools into the wheelbarrow and pushed it back to the house. His father met him inside with a cold glass of lemonade; it tasted cold and sweet and was just the thing he needed, after his morning labor. “Dad,” he said, “have you ever seen the cemetery so empty as today?” “What do you mean?” His father replied. “I saw plenty of people around; it’s just as busy as always. How far did you get before the rain started, son?” “Uh, I got about half of the front and right sides cleared.” He took a long drink of the lemonade and watched his Dad laying out some lasagna noodles in the bottom of a glass casserole dish.
While working on the ranch the men form special bonds with eachother. Candy, who sweeps by himself, cannot have these friendships with the other men because he does not spend time with them. He is all alone with a job for only one. Although the boss was nice enough to let him keep his job, Candy still suffers because of his lack of friends. For fun the men play horseshoes, but Candy is not involved with this game.
Candy: Candy constantly shows signs of being isolated from the rest of the ranch.”they left the weak ones here” Candy’s mindset, actions, and physical appearance make him alienated from the characters and the rest of society. One way that Candy is the most isolated in the story is by having physical appearances which is losing one hand that unable him to do certain things. Candy is also a very old man, which means he cannot do some of the things that people such as Lennie and George can do. By being an older man, even Steinbeck describes him as, “The old swamper” . This shows the amount of respect that Candy gets from all of the characters.
Of Mice and Men In this controlled assessment I will be exploring the ways Crooks is presented in chapter 4 in the novel: ‘Of Mice and Men’. Crooks is the stable buck at the ranch and is the only black person in the novel. The novel was set during the great depression which was un the 1930’s and Crook plays a big part in as he is and outcast within the ranch and the idea of discrimination and racism is bought into the novel which was all present in the 1930’s. Steinbeck uses the character of crooks to represent the black community in the 1900’s which were badly treated and abused during this time period. Racial discrimination is part of the microcosm Steinbeck describes in his story.
Some of the most notable would be Lennie when he was in Weed. As George tells Candy the events of Weed, and being chased out of Weed after Lennie got them in trouble (Steinbeck 41). Here is a time when George and Lennie fall into trouble after a rise, the job in Weed, as Steinbeck make a point that live is full of ups and downs. Next when in the barracks when George plans to buy a land and a house Candy ask if he can get in the plan George is unsure if he should let him, until Candy puts up almost half the cost of the land and house (Stevens). Here George, Lennie, And Candy become close to the goal of buying a house to live the American dream.
Of Mice and Men In the novel Of Mice and Men, the author, John Steinbeck, shows very similar relationships and how important one person, or animal, can be in a man's life. The novel takes place in the era of "The Hungry Thirties" in California and shows the migrations of the many people from Oklahoma. The two main characters in the book, George and Lennie, who have a different kind of relationship than most people because Lennie is mentally ill and George looks after him as though a father or brother, a result of the death of Lennie's aunt. The two men make their way to a new job and met many interesting people such as Candy who also has a special relationship with his old dog that is similar to the one of Lennie and George. The relationship of Candy and his dog foreshadows the end of the novel, both George and Candy feel guilty for what they have done and George is stronger than Candy is in these circumstances.
If you lived on the ranch with no one you really knew you would get lonely too. These three people would be the worst people to be friends with because of there actions and there behavior. The most isolated person in the book was"Crooks".I say this because he does not hangout with anyone unless he has to. Crooks distance himself from everyone on the ranch because of his skin color. Crooks does not associate with many people which causes him not to have many friends.
It may also be foreshadowing that because there is not much light that for George and Lennie something bad is going to happen meaning that it is not a good place for them to be. We also see how badly kept this place is with 'littered cards' this means that the place is not very well kept and that the men that live in it don't really see it as their home instead they just see it as a place where they work and treat it with no real respect. Also with 'black cast iron stove' shows this place really is not looked after as black is a sign of danger and this adds to the foreshadowing that Steinbeck is creating. 'Rushing stars' may show that the dream for George and Lennie is getting even further away and that they may not achieve the dream as it going away from
The novel was written to let people in power in America know what was really happening in their country where everyone is supposed to be equal and free. Write about the way that the men on the ranch view friendship in Of Mice and Men. In particular, examine the character of Crooks and his attitude towards Lennie. Lennie and George, like many other men in America, lived a very lonely existence. In America, there was a depression, a period of economic decline and high unemployment in the Western industrialised nations like America.
Question- What methods does Steinbeck use in this passage to present Candy? In this passage the first and most prominent impression that Steinbeck gives of Candy is that he is an apprehensive and wary character who relies on the reassurance of others around him when he talks. Steinbeck presents him as being hesitant and reluctant, by using a range of punctuation to draw out his speech and and to delay how quickly he discloses dangerous information and gossip: " Yeah Purdy…but-" and " well - she got the eye"are extracts of Candy's speech which uses ellipses, dashes and full stops to demonstrate Candy's reluctance to disclose information which contribute to the way he is presented; a nervous and wary man. This is also demonstrated by the way in which he is constantly seeking an opinion and reassurance from George, who is portrayed as a strong and influential in the novel." The old man was reassured.