According to what the reader knows from the novel, George and Candy never buy the farm. In Chapter Five, after Candy discovers Curley's wife dead in the barn, Candy immediately alerts George and shows him the body. While they are alone together Candy asks George,
“You an’ me can get that little place, can’t we, George? You an’ me can go there an’ live nice, can’t we, George? Can’t we?”
Candy hopes that he and...
According to what the reader knows from the novel, George and Candy never buy the farm. In Chapter Five, after Candy discovers Curley's wife dead in the barn, Candy immediately alerts George and shows him the body. While they are alone together Candy asks George,
“You an’ me can get that little place, can’t we, George? You an’ me can go there an’ live nice, can’t we, George? Can’t we?”
Candy hopes that he and George can go to the farm which has been George's and Lennie's dream. It becomes possible because of the money Candy contributes. Unfortunately George doesn't want to continue with the dream without Lennie. Steinbeck writes,
Before George answered, Candy dropped his head and looked down at the hay. He knew.
Candy knows George can't go along to the farm minus his best friend. George says,
“—I think I knowed from the very first. I think I know’d we’d never do her. He usta like to hear about it so much I got to thinking maybe we would.”
Afterward George goes on with his old story about buying whiskey, sitting in a poolroom or going to a whorehouse. The assumption is that George will be like the rest of the lonely men who roam the country looking for work.
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