●He is an owner of the ranch. He is suspicious, which shows that he doesn’t trust anyone and don’t believe that people can be truly nice to each other.
The stocky, well-dressed man in charge of the ranch, and Curley’s father. He is never named and appears only once, but seems to be a fair-minded man. Candy happily reports that the boss once delivered a gallon of whiskey to the ranch-hands on Christmas Day.