... idea of traveling with a companion nice. "S'pose I went with you guys. Tha's three hundred an' fifty bucks I'd put in. I ain't much good, but I could cook and tend the chickens and hoe the garden some. How'd that be."" (Steinbeck: 59) Candy, along with the other characters, fells that it would be nice to be with other people, and stay with them. Although ... ...

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... a have a piece of the dream or what it signifies for him a place where he can grow old with dignity. "Maybe if I give you guys my money, you"ll let me hoe in the garden even after I ain't no good at it.An" I"ll wash dishes an" little chicken stuff like that.But I"ll be on our own place, an" I"ll be ... ...

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