He no longer will have to worry about getting in trouble, the dream signifies security. .
George and Lennie are the most important characters in the novel. They are ordinary workers for that time in history. They are workers that go from place to place always working different jobs with no real place to call home. The Sinise Production opens with the men traveling in a boxcar and George remembering the escape from Weed. Sinise, directs in the direction of the problems that come from having Lennie around rather than to their dream. These two men were completely different from each other in both the movie and the book. The movie shows George(Gary Sinise) as a handsome bright looking fellow with a full head of hair and Lennie(John Malkovich) is shown as a bald, dull, not a good looking person. The book describes the characters like this: "The first man was small and quick , dark of face with restless eyes and sharp, strong features.Behind him walked his opposite, a huge man, shapeless of face with large pale blue eyes(Steinbeck 2). Yet these two men share a dream. To own a ranch with of their own. This dream is the catalyst for the entire novel. Despite the .
fact that George and Lennie are the central characters their dream is not unique to them. .
George and Lennie's dream is like wild fire as each farm hand hears it they also become consumed by it. When Candy hears about the dream he too wants to become part of it. He is willing to put up all his money just to 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 let work on our own place(Steinbeck 60)." .
Candy is who is able to make the readers believe that the dream will finally come true because the money is now there for these men to finally be able to purchase the land.