I think that Lennie might want "in" on George and Lennie's dream because it gave him a purpose. Candy knows that he's old and basically useless to the ranch, and he'll get fired once he can't do his job anymore. That was probably confirmed when Carlson shot his dog. Candy told what he thought to George and Lennie: "You seen what they did 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." George and Lennie's dream gave Candy hope, so he wanted "in" on the dream. Candy is also a big help to George and Lennie if they want to make their dream come true because he's putting in three hundred and fifty dollars.
Even though George and Lennie's dream seem within their grasp, I don't think that it will actually come true. I think that their dream will be ruined someway by Curley or Curley's wife. I think this because everything's going a little too well at the ranch right now, so something could go wrong at any moment. Also, George stated that it would take one month for them to make one hundred dollars, but the book only took place over a few days. If the dream actually came true, it probably should be in the book.
Your observations and rationale reasoning are spot on. Yes, I think something will happen to ruin their dreams, most likely involving Curley. Seeing as how the book only spanned throughout a couple of days, and they would need at least a month to gather all the money, and then a couple of days to set up their land, something has to happen to destroy it. Also, in the matter of Candy, George and Lennie's dream gave him a reason to want to stay alive and well, seeing as how he explained he had no family and he wished that someone would shoot him. I gave him a drive, or it impelled him to want to be apart of their little secret plan. I agree with your observations and statements.
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