The American Dream began as propaganda to inspire the American people of the early 20th century to work harder to build a prosperous economy. The idea of ​​the American Dream is that every American citizen has an equal opportunity to earn money while owning a large house, land, and starting a family with children. In Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck illustrates that the American dream, no matter how simple, is impossible to achieve. As everyone has their own interpretation of the American Dream, Steinbeck uses George and Lennie, Crooks and Curley's Wife to demonstrate how impossible the American Dream is to achieve and how important the dream was to people so that they could continue their life. George and Lennie have been traveling together since the death of Lennie's Aunt Clara. The two constructed a dream in which they discuss how they envision their lives once they finish working. “OK, one day we're going to put the jack together and we'll have a little house and a few acres and a cow and some pigs and…” (Steinbeck 16). George and Lennie share a dream in which they will one day save enough money to buy their own farm and live out the rest of their days together so that when they work, they will work for themselves and be able to do what they want. on their own terms. Even though George and Lennie have been working towards their dream for a long time, it is still a challenge for them to make it come true with Lennie's disability and the fact that it causes them to run out of grass. “My God, if I was alone, I could live so easily. I could go get a job and work, no problem. No waste at all, and when the end of the month came, I could take my fifty dollars and go to town and flip through... middle of paper... the most to achieve. George and Lennie will never be able to achieve their dream because during Lennie's life he made it difficult to maintain a job because of his disabilities and when he dies the dream of being able to come true ends. Steinbeck also illustrates the difficulty for black men to achieve their dreams through Crooks. Crooks is like every other man on the farm, he is considered weaker (due to his skin color) compared to everyone else, which gives him an unfair advantage in achieving his dream. Finally, Steinbeck uses Curley's wife to demonstrate how woman was viewed more as a material object than a person during this time, which, much like Crooks, gives him an unfair advantage in achieving his dream. Ultimately, none of the characters in Of Mice and Men are able to achieve their goal due to one of their personal problems or one of the many social limitations of that era...