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Candy yells at the dead girl and calls her a tramp. He's let down and angry..... he's devastated that he had a future and companionship within his grasp and lost it because of her.
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Crooks tells Candy to forget about what he said about joining the farm. Curley's wife humiliated him enough to understand that any dreams a black man like him might have, won't come true.
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Candy sinks into a deep melancholy and the men try to lighten the atmosphere with talk of cards and magazine articles. Just as they begin a game of euchre, a shot rings out in the night.
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