The uprise in car ownership allowed for Americans to choose a life on the “open road”, as highways began to develop, inevitably altering America’s landscape for good. However, the other significant attribution to the idea of an “American dream”, was the influence of an excessive consumption of goods. By this I mean that Americans were strongly influenced to be house owners, within the middle-class, because advertisements and higher-class people proposed that the one way to be free was to spend, spend, and spend. The idea was that, if you owned a house, you had the “physical embodiment of hopes for a better
The uprise in car ownership allowed for Americans to choose a life on the “open road”, as highways began to develop, inevitably altering America’s landscape for good. However, the other significant attribution to the idea of an “American dream”, was the influence of an excessive consumption of goods. By this I mean that Americans were strongly influenced to be house owners, within the middle-class, because advertisements and higher-class people proposed that the one way to be free was to spend, spend, and spend. The idea was that, if you owned a house, you had the “physical embodiment of hopes for a better