George said wonderingly, “S’pose they was a carnival or a circus come to town, or a ball game, or any damn thing.” Old Candy nodded in appreciation of the idea. “We’d just go to her,” George said. “We wouldn’t ask nobody if we could. Jus’ say, ‘We’ll go to her,’ an’ we would. Jus’ milk the cow and sling some grain to the chickens an’ go to her.”

– John Steinbeck

Of Mice and Men, Chapter 3. A perfect example of the American dream. George is telling Lennie and Candy how, if they had their own piece of land, they could do whatever they wanted to do. Go to the ball game, the circus and wherever they pleased.