In the film, this part of the story takes place a couple of days after the dog is shot. Candy overhears and quickly offers her money to help with the dream. (DVD) In ​​the book, the event occurs the same night the dog is shot, when the characters' emotions are still raw and nervous. The other men have left the dormitory and George and Lennie begin to talk about their future plans. In the film version, Candy is visible in the background, but in the book he is not mentioned as the other two men talk to each other. The reader, as well as George and Lennie, forget that Candy is in the room until asked if George knew of a place. The text says that he was excited and impatient when he speaks (56). He describes how he sat on the edge of his bunk. He had just lost his only friend, but now there was an opportunity not to be alone. Here's a chance for him to not feel alone. He's so desperate about this that he's offering every penny he has in the world plus his future earnings to a couple of strangers. He knows this is his only chance. "Did you see what they did to my dog ​​tonight? They say he wasn't good to himself or anyone else. When they bring me here I wish someone would shoot me. But they won't do anything like that. I won I have no place to go, and I