George bursts into a long speech about what he could do if he were alone. what could he do?

From the text:

"God a'mighty, if I was alone I could live so easy. I could go get a job an' work, an' no trouble. No mess at all, and when the end of the month come I could take my fifty bucks and go into town and get whatever I want. Why, I could stay in a cat house all night. I could eat any place I want, hotel or any place, and order any damn thing I could think of. An' I could do all that every damn

month. Get a gallon of whisky, or set in a pool room and play cards or shoot pool."