 Now the character of Kandee is a really interesting and very poignant figure. In other words He's a really important but yet melancholic a very sad character that Steinbeck use. Now He's the only old ranch worker on the farm. However, his Character is used by Steinbeck to essentially show just how brutal the capitalist order really is. People such as Kandee are Basically used the life force is taken out of them. They're used in their prime years But then once the ranch is finished with them once they're too old to give any more labor back They are basically discarded. Okay, so essentially you want to talk about Kandee and the quotations that you want to memorize in regards to Kandee's character you want to think about it in terms of how he illustrates the brutality of life on the ranch and by extension the brutality of life in what Steinbeck sometimes saw as a very brutal capitalist American society. Now as you can see behind me, there's key quotations to remember and of course word level analysis You want to do with these quotations? Now the first quotation actually relates to Kandee's dog But really to be honest when you think about how Kandee's dog is described The dog is basically an extension of Kandee himself. The dog is used as a metaphor and a symbol of Kandee himself Now the dog is described as gray of muzzle ellipsis moth eaten The word level analysis you want to do here first off is the adjective gray just like the dog is gray Kandee himself is gray Also, you want to think about the alliteration of M muzzle and moth and of course moth eaten It's been eaten away by years Even if the dog has been such a loyal dog on the farm Actually, ultimately the farm workers and the ranch workers kind of look at it with disdain and ultimately want to kill it It's been basically used up and now it's going to be shot dead and perhaps this could foreshadow So maybe for instance if mice and men the novella carried on and if there was a part 2 part 3 part 4 sequel Perhaps we could very well see that Kandee ultimately will also face the same fate as his dog Maybe he's not going to be shot dead But perhaps him being kicked off the ranch in his old age that basically signals his death He won't be able to find work elsewhere and ultimately he's going to die a very lonely miserable death So basically the dog's life and its path basically echoes the life and the path of older ranch workers When they were no longer useful in the ranch just like how old people in capitalist society in America's during the time When they're no longer useful, they'll basically just cast aside, okay? The second quotation relating to Kandee's character is once all the men on the ranch basically leave And they are in the brothel, so basically they are with prostitutes And the key characters that are left behind are of course Kandee, Crooks, Lenny and Curly's wife Now Kandee tells Crooks Nobody would listen to us and here the word of analysis you want to focus on is the pronoun us Of course he's talking to Crooks, Kandee is the only old man Crooks is the only black African-American man on the ranch Both of them realise the unique struggles that they face as outsiders And how actually all the other ranch workers really don't see them as worthy of even listening or believing in them, okay? And of course what this is illustrating is just the abject brutality That society treats older people like Kandee in that kind of disregarding way And of course obviously by extension it also treats people like Crooks as an outsider in a very brutal manner The third quotation to remember for Kandee's character is when it comes to how he tries to defend his dog from its death, okay? And he looks to everybody and he's trying to get slim, please, slim, spare my dog And of course the dog is still killed, okay? And the quotation here is Kandee looked from help from face to face The word level analysis you want to focus on is a repetition of the word face from face to face Even actually you can mention alliteration from and face alliteration of F, yeah? Now here with regards to this quotation, this quotation is really really powerful to show just the brutality of this system That chews up people like Kandee, ranch workers even like Slim Because once Slim gets old and he's no longer useful in the ranch right now In the novella he's quite powerful and therefore he's very useful But once he becomes old he's going to face the same fate as Kandee, right? And nobody will look to him for help, nobody will come to his rescue And this obviously, this quotation illustrates how Kandee is alone He stands as an old man and everyone doesn't really care for his say and of course they end up killing the dog The other quotation to remember for his character is when he states, when he confesses and he realises That he's not very useful anymore in the ranch, he states Very much good, and here you want to focus on the modal verb ain't Remember modal verbs are verbs that don't necessarily show an action, can, will, must, will All of these modal verbs for instance, they tend to go with another verb And they usually emphasise a state of being a belief even And of course the modal verb here ain't, I am not Illustrates Kandee's belief that and his internalised belief that as an old man He really is useless in society, which obviously as readers makes us feel a lot of pathos A lot of sadness and empathy for him The other quotation to remember for Kandee's character is when it illustrates When he realises that George and Lenny have this American dream, this dream of owning a farm And he basically says he has some savings and now Coupled with the money that George and Lenny are going to earn plus Kandee's savings This dream of owning a farm is actually potentially going to be realised This description is really powerful, they looked at one another, amazed, full stop This thing they had never really believed in was coming true So Kandee stepping in with George and Lenny to say let's all work together as a community Rather than being as individuals that we have strength in numbers Let's put money together and put money towards this farm This dream which is just an idea actually now becomes a reality All realising it dawns on them that they might actually have a chance at getting a shot of the American dream Now the key word level analysis you want to do with this quotation is a bit of a long quotation Now the first is you want to focus on the pronoun they, this is a collective pronoun Always remember that one of the things that Steinbeck wanted to illustrate And of mice and men is just how solitary and lonely life for migrant labourers is But actually also he's illustrating here through this collective pronoun As a group that in a community migrant labourers actually find strength They can actually escape the right race, okay? And of course here this collective pronoun shows that them working together George, Lenny and Kandee is going to give them the possibility The one shot that they have at owning land and attaining the American dream The other word level analysis you want to do here is the assonance of A So another amazed And of course this assonance illustrates just how they've realised that this dream is within their reach They can actually attain this American dream The other word level analysis you want to do is a litteration of T This, thing, they and true And finally the adverb really and the verb believed Okay and of course the adverb especially and the verb really believed Shows that these men subconsciously believe that something like getting and attaining an American dream Something like attaining any ownership of a farm They had subconsciously believed that it was for other people who were more lucky But now they're starting to realise that they might themselves have a shot at this And of course this realisation comes because Kandee throws in his lot with George and Lenny And therefore makes the possibility of them having enough money to own the farm a reality So those are the key quotations to remember when it comes to Kandee's character And the word level analysis that you should do So make sure you try and memorise these quotations