Communication 
1 Comment Candy’s role in the story is to be the person who has no real significance to the rest of the men he is just someone who is there to be an outcast.
Steinbeck has made it so that candy isn’t just an outcast to the men in the book but he is also a outcast to us as well being the reader.
One of the first instances where we see that Candy is a outcast in the story is when George and Lennie arrive at the ranch the first person who is there alone with his dog is candy, another example for evidence that candy is a loner is that when all the men go out drinking he is left alone, much like crooks again but for different reasons. The last piece of evidence which shows us that candy is a outcast is that towards the end of the book whilst the men are playing horse shoes candy isn’t playing, he’s alone wondering around the ranch lookingbfor Lennie and finds his way to the barn which is where he found Curley’s wife dead on the barn floor.
This is a good analysis of Candy as an outcast. To develop an answer for the Controlled Assessment you’ll need to expand it to explain how the presentation of this character demonstrates Steinbeck’s message about the effects of the prejudices these characters experience.
You’ll also need to make sure you put the events into their correct historical and cultural context (in this case 1930’s Depression in the US)
You can use the resources in the class blog to guide you to developing your plan and other preparation material:
http://waugh10.www.edutronic.net/category/controlled-assessments/of-mice-and-men/