Of Mice And Men

There are many reasons why John Steinbeck added Candy to his book Of
Mice and Men. The first and foremost reason, which may not be so
obvious at first, is that Candy is in fact the narrator. He is the
narrator in a way because he is the one telling George and Lennie
about the ranch. Candy describes to them the people, their
personalities and who to stay away from.

When Candy is first introduced, he is called the 'old swamper'. We
only discover his name after a while. The first person Candy talks
about is Crooks, the 'nigger' stable. From this you can make out that
the others on the ranch are prejudice towards the stable buck, ' Ya
see the stable buck's a nigger,' Crooks is clearly disadvantaged due
to his skin colour. When the boss is finished talking to Lennie and
George, George tells Lennie off for talking. As Lennie is being told
off, George looked outside and found Candy standing there, thinking
Candy was eavesdropping, George repeatedly asks Candy why he was
standing out side, '?and peered out. "Say, what the hell you doin'
listenin'?' '"I wasn't listenin'. I was jus' standin' in the shade a
minute scratchin' my dog."' Candy says that guys on ranches don't
listen into things they shouldn't, ' "A guy on a ranch don't never
listen nor he don't ast no questions."' Candy tells George about
Curley and to keep Lennie away from him, '" Curley's like a lot of
little guys. Kind of like he's made at em' because he ain't a big guy.
You seen little guys like that, ain't you? Always scrappy?"' He tells
George to not tell Curley that he was talking about him because he
would get 'sloughed' by Curley and Curley won't get fired because he
is the boss' son. '"Don't Curley I said none of this. He'd slough me.
He just don't give a damn. Won't ever get canned 'cause his old man's
the boss"'

Candy also tells George that Curley has gotten even cockier than
before he was married, '"Seems like Curley is cockier'n ever since he
got married."' Candy...