No friends. No family. Not even man's best friend, all that’s left is loneliness. With each memory thought of as a fossil in the brain, he’s struggling and scratching at the floor for one immaculate being. The deteriorated pessimistic feeling of living in regret and sorrow repeating like a broken record. John Steinbeck’s novel, Of Mice and Men, is more than just a story from the Great Depression. This classic novel touches upon a topic that is timeless, loneliness. The author creates amazing detailed characters that display the theme of loneliness in only a way Steinbeck can. His character Candy is a portrait of an empty soul, a person who lives to forget as if each day is just another beatdown on life itself.
Candy throughout the whole novel goes through these tragic losses of something that you know he held dear to his heart. This dog of
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“Had him since a pup. Herded sheep with him , he said proudly. You wouldn't think it to look at him now but he was the best damn sheep do i ever scene” (steinbeck 44). Candy could brag about this dog like a father at his son's baseball game. He's had such a long lasting time with this dog and would want nothing to happen to it. George and lennie have always wanted this dream of going and buying a nice big place. Something of their own. But later in the book candy hears them talking about it and offers half of the money of the property if he can stay there to. The two boys agree and by the end of the month they were supposed to go and buy that little place. Unfortunately lennie gets in