The American Dream Stephen Cruz Analysis

Lastly, the American Dream is portrayed to society as being a hard worker, having a house, consistent income and raising a family. The American Dream views this lifestyle as an ideal or typical way of living in America. According to Stephen Cruz he realized throughout his experiences with different jobs that "it doesn't matter if you have had an education, opportunity, and hard work buy by the power and fear." Cruz had to overcome obstacles throughout his childhood by living where the "trashy whites" lived, living in Mexico most of his life while his father had worked during the Great Depression and wouldn’t allow the family to be on welfare. Cruz had experiences throughout his life, future careers & opportunities' more difficult because, of his values and his minority. Throughout his various jobs he had obtained he had struggled to figure out the method or way that people pertaining with racial discrimination and the kind of the backlash it had about his overall outlook about the American Dream. He later …show more content…
"You see, until now I believed everything I was taught about the dream; the American businessman is omnipotent and fair." Cruz reflects his past experiences in the workplace and how much the media changed his perspective on how living and working in America is extremely different and tries to paint a "picture perfect" image on how everyone's lives should be and living without any challenges or hardships. The American Dream is created by how the society views on how America should be and the types of people where and tries to distinguish social classes as if you are poor or extremely wealthy not "just normal" or "middle class' or else you don’t fit in with the stereotypical "American dream" or have as many opportunities' in your lifetime unless you are not on either end of the