Lennie and George’s aspiration is to be able to have a land of their own and work for themselves and to do so together. Their dream is about to be achieved but still fails. Fangjie in his research on John Steinbeck’s Worker Trilogy points out that “The American Dream in Of Mice and Men represents the relationship between inpidual dreams and human’s yearning for Eden.”   According to the Bible, our human are destined to be expelled from the Garden of Eden. Admitting in a similar way, Zhang Changsong further claims that “John Steinbeck implies a reality with the law of the jungle, which indicates the doom of Lennie’s dream.”   

Li Xi concludes the disillusionment of American Dream in the world into two reasons. “One reason is the influence of the capitalism system. The migrant workers in the novella are controlled by the figures in authority that reap the fiscal benefits of their labors. The other reason is human’s imperfections that make them hard to achieve their dream” . Zheng Meihua also suggests that “it is the capitalism system that leads to the disillusionment of those workers’ dreams”.   With the increasing use of machines on the farm, the workers gradually become useless. “George and Lenni’s dream becomes impossible because of its cost,”says director Richard Heller. “migrant workers can’t earn enough to attain it, and in the end, the dream is shattered by forces out of their control.”   American people have suffered from their dream because the promise which is deeply embedded in it can neither be fulfilled. The ambivalences in the American dream also become plain when it conflicts with American reality. Mice and Men