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Of Mice and Men
Candy
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| How many times the phrase 'old man' is repeated before we learn his name | 14 |
| Candy lost his right hand in a farming accident | ‘out of the sleeve came a round stick-like wrist, but no hand.’ (39) |
| He knows his time is limited on the ranch | ‘They’ll can me purty soon. Jus’ as soon as I can’t swamp out no bunk house they’ll put me on the county.’ (88) |
| What Curley's Wife calls Candy, Lennie and Crooks | 'the weak ones' (110) |
| George accuses Candy of listening at doors | 'nosey' |
| Makes a similar comment about most of the men on the ranch | 'nice fella' |
| Respects Slim, comparing him favourably to the Boss and Curley | 'don't need to wear no high-heeled boots' (50) |
| Accurately assesses Curley’s character | 'Curley's like a lot of little guys. He hates big guys' (48) |
| Candy begs George not to tell Curley what he has said about him, as he fears physical reprisals | 'He'd slough me.' (48) |
| Tells George that Curley has boasted about keeping the glove on his left hand | 'fulla vaseline' to keep it 'soft for his wife' (49) |
| Criticises Curley's Wife | 'a tart' (50) |
| Description of Candy's dog | 'a drag-footed sheep dog, grey of muzzle, and with pale, blind old eyes.' (45) |
| Candy's constant defence for not putting his dog down | 'I had him from a pup' (said three times) |
| Carlson's description of Candy's dog | ‘got no teeth, damned near blind, can’t eat.’ (58) |
| Carlson tells Candy he needs to put the dog down | ‘Why’n’t you shoot him, Candy?’ The old man squirmed uncomfortably.’ (71) |
| Candy appeals unsuccessfully to the others to save his dog | ‘Candy looked for help from face to face.’ (74) |
| While waiting for his dog to be killed | ‘Candy lay rigidly on his bed staring at the ceiling.’ (75) |
| Candy's reaction when the shot is finally heard | ‘he rolled over and faced the wall and lay silent.’ (76) |
| Admits to George that he should have taken responsibility for his dog | ‘I ought to of shot that dog myself, George. I shouldn’t ought to of let no stranger shoot my dog.’ (89) |
| Just after his dog has been shot, Candy overhears George and Lennie talking about the dream | ‘Old Candy turned slowly over. His eyes were wide open’. (84) |
| George, Lennie and Candy are entranced by the possibility of the dream coming true | ‘They all sat still, all bemused by the beauty of the thing, each mind was popped into the future when this lovely thing should come about.’ (88) |
| Emboldened by the dream, Candy mocks Curley when he is looking for a fight | 'Glove fulla Vaseline' (90) |
| Candy tells Crooks about the farm they are going to buy | ‘He stopped overwhelmed with his picture.’ (109) |
| Tells Curley's Wife to leave Crooks' room | ‘But a change came over old Candy. He stood up suddenly … You ain’t wanted here.’ (111) |
| What the dream means to him | ‘An we got fren’s, that’s what we got.’ (112) |
| He tells Curley’s Wife she needs to leave Crooks’ room | 'maybe you better jus' scatter along now' (112) |
| Casually racist about Crooks, explaining that the reason the Boss gave Crooks ‘hell’ | ‘the stable buck’s a n****r’ (40) |
| The number of times he uses the n-word when recounting how Smitty would have killed Crooks at the Christmas party | 5 |
| Defends Crooks when Curley's Wife threatens him with false allegations | ‘We’d tell about you framin’ Crooks.’ (114) |
| Candy is unsure what to do next when he finds Curley’s Wife dead | ‘What we gonna do now, George?’ (131) |
| Candy 'spoke his greatest fear' to George | 'You an' me can get that little place, can't we, George?'… George? Can’t we?’ (131) |
| When George does not respond | 'Candy dropped his head and looked down at the hay. He knew.' (131) |
| He verbally attacks the dead body of Curley's wife | 'You God damn tramp' he said viciously… you lousy tart.' (132) |
| When he goes to tell the others about the death of Curley’s Wife | ‘His eyes blinded with tears and he turned and went weakly out of the barn, and he rubbed his bristly whiskers with his wrist stump.’ (133) |
| When the others have gone to hunt down Lennie | ‘Old Candy lay down in the hay and covered his eyes with his arm.’ (136) |
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