“You seen what they done to my dog tonight? They says he wasn’t no good to himself nor nobody else. When they can me here I wisht somebody’d shoot me. But they won’t do nothing like that. I won’t have no place to go, an’ I can’t get no more jobs.”

– John Steinbeck

Of Mice and Men, Chapter 3. A depressed Candy laments his fate. Like the old dog who has outlived his usefulness, he too has become a castaway. He doesn’t know how he will survive if he gets tossed off the ranch.