In the end, why don't George and Candy still buy the ranch after Lennie is gone in Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck?

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logical thing forto do would be to find a wife, not some old man with one hand who would be
doing the housework and a little gardening. George is young, strong, industrious, capable. He
might be able to find a widow who owned her own farm and would be delighted to have a man to
take over all the hard outdoor work (like the character played by Tim Holt in the 1948 movie The
Treasure of the Sierra Madre). Or George might be able to find an unmarried woman who had a few
hundred dollars saved up. After all, he only needed six hundred dollars to buy a little farm in
those days. If he had a wife he would soon have children and be living a normal life on his own
property. This was the common pattern all over America. I am reminded of Knut Hamsun's novel
Growth of the Soil, a marvelous book by a Nobel prize-winning author. Thedeveloped some land in
Norway and built his own house. It wasn't long before he had a wife to share the place with him
and to share the labor.