Candy OMAM Quotes

Candy, Intro (2)

“A tall, stoop shouldered man”
“old swamper”

Candy, Companionship (3)

“I’ve had him from a pup”
“I shouldn’t ought to let no stranger shoot my dog”
“I was just standin’ in the shade a minute scratching my dog”

Candy, American Dream (2)

“I ain’t much good, but I could cook and tend the chickens”
“I got three hundred and fifty dollars”

Candy, Prejudice (3)

“They’ll can me purty soon”
“I won’t have no place to go”
“I ain’t much good with on’y one hand”

Candy, Context Intro (1)

Steinbeck told The New York Times in 1937 “All the characters are composites to a certain extent.”
Steinbeck made it clear that he wanted to document the suffering of the people he worked with saying “I’m trying to write history - a visceral documentary.”

Candy, Context Companionship (1)

Itinerant workers in 1930s America often travelled alone, as low paid agricultural work was often seasonal and short-lived. So they moved from place to place looking for work and not earning enough to buy their own place.

Candy, Context American Dream (1)

According to James Truslow Adams, the American Dream is a life which is richer and fuller for everyone

Candy, Context Prejudice (2)

During the 1930s in America, the social Darwinism theory was popularised. Darwinism was the theory of natural selection. However it had now been applied to humans within society and so it was believed that only some groups or races are strong and smart enough to survive, whilst others were destined to be removed from the gene pool. From this theory came a lack of empathy for those who lacked ‘economic productivity’.
Ableist attitudes were normalised in 1930s America and were often viewed as a burden to society.