Two migrant workers, George and Lennie, attempt to achieve their version of the American Dream or “the ability of all Americans to achieve a better standard of living, including ownership of a house" ("American Dream" 96). The two men are more concerned with owning "a little house and a couple of acres" and their ability to "live off the land" (Steinbeck 14). Their journey, however, it comes across as more challenging than the others as Lennie struggles with a mental deficit and relies heavily on George for both structure and guidance Whenever George and Lennie begin to settle into a job, Lennie makes a mistake by leading George on to uproot his life and yell at Lennie for how he "keeps pushing it all over the country all the time" (Steinbeck 11) Although their pursuit of happiness and success, along with Lennie's struggles, seem to be the main conflicts of the novel, there is much more beneath the surface as the two major transfers discussed in the short story occur due to the behavior of a woman.