Candy

Candy is very quiet and mysterious in the beginning of the book, but throughout the chapters he beings to talk more, especially when he befriends Lennie and George, and becomes interested in their plan. Lennie and George are sitting on their bunks in their room, while Candy is on the other side on his bunk gazing at the ceiling eavesdropping on having their own ranch. “S’pose I went in with you guys. Tha’s three hundred an fifty buck I’d put in” (59). Candy is persuading George and Lennie with giving them half of the money so that he can live with them on their ranch. Throughout the chapters Candy chance of living on the ranch with George and Lennie slowly become smaller and smaller. After Candy asks George and Lennie to live with them, he persuades them with this line. “I ain’t much good with on’y one hand. I lost my hand right here on this ranch. Tha’s why they gave me a job swamping” (59). Candy is trying to make George and Lennie feel bad so they give in and let them in on the plan. George and Lennie finally give in after questioning him a lot. After George and Lennie agree to let Candy in on the ranch plan, Candy is still weeping over the loss of his aged dog. “I ought to of shot the dog myself, George. I shouldn’t to let no stranger shoot my dog” (61). Candy is saying that he regrets letting someone else murder his long-time dog and wishes he could of done himself.