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ESSAY John Steinbeck novel, Of Mice and musical compositionpower, contains three characters who could be described as social misfits. In this undertake I am going to describe Candy, Crooks, and Curleys wife and assay what Steinbeck is attempting to tell the reader just about the lives and situation of each of these characters. The book, Of Mice and Men, was dress in the feeling of 1930s in California in a place c solelyed Soledad. Of Mice and Men, can be viewed as a benevolent story of John Steinbeck for the hard life, poor, elder age ,unskilled workers displaced by the depression a with child(p) economic and high unemployment with no hope and no future. They had to leave their families and homes just to make money. Candy is such a character. He is the bunkhouse cleaner and he is octogenarian and has no family and the only senile man on the ranch. We are told him in the book, that he is a good natured old gossip. He is a useful source of inf ormation about all the character at the ranch. We know because when George and Lennie arrive in to the ranch, Candy tells them about all the characters and also tells them about what is going on in the bunkhouse, for ideal when he says to George and Lennie about Curley, Curley like a lot of little guys. He hates big guys. So first of all they know that how aggressive and bad guy Curley is. He is fond of his chase after even though it is old and smelly. Candy had that dog since it was a pup. His dog is his only friend old same like Candy. Carlson offers to shoot his dog. But Candy resists for his old, smelly, nameless dog, No, I couldnt do that. I had im too long. Candy knows if he allows his dog to be shot he will become lonelier because that is the only play along he got and he will lose it. But Carlson is determined. Eventually he leads the dog out into the darkness of the night and to its death.