What is the main conflict in Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey?

Hank's feisty, angry independence can be seen as a double-sided comment on the so-called American Dream, first introduced as a secondary thematic subject in Chapter One. The individual's fight for "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" is dramatized in Hank's insistent and spirited resistance to Draeger's proposals. The
core action and conflict of the novel, however, is built on the premise that to at least
some degree Hank's pursuit of this right is putting him in direct conflict that's damaging the rights of others in the town to pursue the same dream.