“Want me to tell you what’ll happen? They’ll take you to a booby hatch. They’ll tie you up with a collar, like a dog” (Steinbeck 72). In the 1930’s discrimination was a powerful tool used to hide the users own loneliness and pain of travelling alone. During the Great Depression many ranch hands travelled alone in search for work. Candy, one of Steinbeck’s characters was an old man. He had lost his hand on the ranch and in compensation he was given a life-long job “swamping” for the ranch hands. Crooks, the ranches stable buck is the only black male on the ranch. He lives in the barn and because of his race, is isolated from many of the ranch workers. Lennie, is a migrant worker who travels with his best friend. Lennie depends on his friend to survive because he has the mind of a child. Needless to say, Candy, Crooks, and Lennie all feel the pain of loneliness through different ways even if their dreams aren't so different..
In chapter three, an older migrant worker called Candy explains to George how he lost his hand on the ranch and was compensated with a “swampin’” job and 250
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These characters all share the dream of finding a family of friends to spend the rest of their life with. Unfortunately the characters are often discriminated and isolated from the other men on the ranch. What Robert Burns is saying in his poem is that the best laid out plans will often go wrong and leave us with nothing but grief because we were so sure our plan was foolproof. This quote relates to Of Mice and Men because Candy, Crooks, and Lennie, all had dreams that were so sure to be fulfilled but went awfully wrong.What Robert Burns is saying is his poem is that the best laid out plans will often go wrong and leave us with nothing but grief because Candy, Crooks, and Lennie, all had dreams that were so sure to be fulfilled but went awfully