Candy's Dog

In Of Mice And Men we are showed the symbolization of the death of Candy's best friend, his dog. Candy and the dog spent so much time together and grew very old in enough time. Because pretty much everyone was lonely at this time, Candy's dog symbolizes how rare it really was to have a friend and how nobody understood the meaning of friendship unless they had one themselves. The death of Candy's dog shows just how much people didn't 'care' about others. Carlson clearly showed that he didn't care about the dog or Candy's feeling much. Although it would have been great to see the dog live, I think that this death was a good thing in some ways. The simple reason is because the dog was suffering already and it was put out of its 'misery'. The MAIN reason why I am happy for the dog's death is because it shows just what it was like for the few people who lost friends, moving into a life of loneliness. This could also be foreshadowing in some way, maybe there could be another death or somebody could become more lonely than ever. I don't know yet, but I'm eager to find out!