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The American Dream inspires people to believe they can gain a better life. This paper mainly scrutinizes the contention of the American dream epitomized in the Jeanine Cummins’s American Dirt novel. This paper addresses the delineation of the American dream in the novel. The study applied the descriptive qualitative method while data were narration and dialogue from the novel. Stuart Hall’s representation theory and Michael Foucault’s power were employed to support the analysis. The American dream carries two faces, which can construct people more convinced and toil harder to deal with some difficult things, but also make people ignorant. The American dream is unrealistic in the real world. This reality makes up for the weakness of the American dream, which vacates a massive gap of hope in American Dirt novel in particular.