Disability

Question 1

Candy’s dog

Answer 1

• slim ‘studying’ dog deciding its worth
• ‘that dog ain’t no good’ — he’s lost all sense of value about the dog because it’s no longer useful to the ranch
• ‘I wisht somebody’d shoot me if I got old an’ a cripple’

Question 2

Lennie

Answer 2

• ‘a little dead puppy that lay in front of him’
• ‘shouts of men, playing, encouraging, jeering’
• represents the dark side to the life of neurodivergent people during Great Depression
• the other men would never understand

Question 3

Candy

Answer 3

• He recognises that he will get fired and stop working, a bit like his dog
• ‘When they can me here I wisht somebody’d shoot me.’
• echos slim
• He’d rather be dead than endure being homeless in his last years of life
• “shoot” suggests he compares himself to his dog. His without his dog makes him want to die
• old people in Great Depression
• scares the contemporary reader: he is a victim of the Great Depression, if things don’t change, this is their future