How To Write An Essay On The American Dream

A False Hope The American Dream: an idea that anyone can work towards and achieve success if they work hard. The American Dream has been talked about for years and there are many examples of when it has been achieved and when it has broken apart and torn to pieces. It is a false hope for many people but there is always the rare case when someone achieves greatness by pursuing it. In the play All My Sons, Arthur Miller accurately represents the American Dream by showing what it is meant to be, how it is made, and how it can be wrong. The “perfect” American Dream can be seen as many different things in the eyes of many different people. For most, it’s the typical white picket fence, two kids, self-made individual who worked hard against all odds. During this time many Americans regarded the perfect dream house as being “two stories high and [having] seven rooms” (5). In the play itself it is shown in how Joe achieves success. He started from nothing when he was kicked out of his house at the age of ten, he started his own company, and he eventually made success for his family. Joseph puts his family before him and works hard for them and it ultimately leads to …show more content…
As a kid, Joe Keller, was kicked out of his home at the age of ten and was forced to make his own way in the world. As he stated in the book, he learnt to make a “buck.” When brought to the table when the argument broke out in the house he stated that he could live on a quarter a day if he wanted to but he had a family to feed and take care of. As Joe states, “I should’ve put him out when he was ten like I was put out, and make him earn his keep” (63). As Joe is caught in the heat of the argument that breaks out in his own house he says this to his wife regarding his son and what he should’ve done. The way that Keller made his dream an American Dream is the way it was meant to be but the way he lost it, was