Candy is a “tall, stoop shouldered old man”, who has lost his right hand.
Right from the start if the novella Candy’s age and his physical weaknesses are emphisised.
Candy is also described through his dog, “a drag-footedsheepdog, grey of muzzle and with pale, blind old eyes”.
Candy‘s relationship with his dog like George’s relationship with Lennie, not som rational but an antidote to lonelines. Candy rather like his dog, is old, infirm and weak. One of the strongest statements in OMAM is that such people are worthy of our attention and our respect.
Candy allows the ranch hand Carlson to shoot his old, smelly dog.
Candy discovers the dead body of Curley‘s wife in the barn
