Of Mice and Men- Candy

Candy

Key Points:

• Candy, when he is first introduced, is described as a "tall, stoop-shouldered old man", it is also added that he lost his right hand while working on the ranch and now only cleans the bunkhouse.
• His primary purpose in the novel is to represent social discrimination,especially with age and hanicaps, as he shows what happens to all old people in the American Depression; they get thrown away and deemed no longer useful.
• Candy's biggest fear is that once he isn't able to clean he will be 'disposed of' like his dog, as he was no longer useful.
• Candy and his dog…