Is The American Dream A Success Or A Failure

In the 1920’s, America was a booming country. Stocks were up, technology was growing fast, and most people were excited for the future. People dreamed big and worked hard to make their lives better and richer. Success was increasing and many people considered the American Dream successful. But the transcend into 1930’s was not great. Stocks began to untwine and gave out less money. People began to give up on the stock market dream and started to pull out of the market, billions of dollars worth of stocks were lost. October 28, 1929, the stock market plummeted, and America began a decade long time of sorrow and hopelessness. For the first few years of the decade President Herbert Hoover did very little to fix the economy, and soon people lost patience and were giving up on the hope that America could be as great as it once was. People did not lose hope on the American Dream though, as they searched for jobs that they could get any amount of money from. In 1937, a author by the name of John Steinbeck wrote a book that described the time America was stuck in, Of Mice and Men. …show more content…
Throughout Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck uses the characters desires and outcomes to show that during times of great collapse and stress the American Dream always seems like a faraway mirage as it is fueled by self determination, desperation, and soon to be