Saul Bellow’s The Dean’s December depicts the future of American culture most darkly throughout his entire works. Corde, former journalist and now a professor in the University, sees the indifferences and self-denials flourishing in the city, Chicago. They don’t care their urgent social problems. And even intellectuals and mass media take undue advantage of the flow of this social status. As a conscientious intellect who recognizes the serious of social situations Corde can’t help struggling with the philistine intellectuals and forceful mass media, but they are too strong for this lonely intellect Even though he was defeated, he does not give up the hope for recovering the society. The first step he could take is throwing up the exhausting intellectual debates against them Thee recognizes that the debates are useless, and by giving up the useless debates he has his mind released. The rest is up to the masses. As long as there are individuals who truely care for the society and its people, the culture of this society can expect the vision of renewal.