The American Dream: A Film Analysis

The American dream is based on the desires found as a result of the American lifestyle. A common theme found throughout the interviews was an inherent plea for stability. A significant percent of the people interviewed came from foreign countries for various reasons such as a want for a better life not just for themselves but for their children. Making an enormous move like that might be the reason why many of them had such an innate craving for stability. Another major component was this stability which likely persisted as a factor that was lacking to a certain degree in their home country. Regardless of that even people who were not aliens to the United States hinted towards a highly peaked interest for solidity, steadiness, and comfort. The American dream is for a significant number of people an opportunity that tomorrow can be different. There is an extra focus on the idea of what an individual can achieve in the future rather than something to hold onto for the immediacy of current everyday life.

Stability has an alternate meaning depending on the person as well as their background. In Shaleka’s interview, Angie, an immigrant from …show more content…
He discussed how being subjected to commonplace racism made for countless more challenges when reaching to achieve the stability of the “American dream”. Unlike Angie, Arielle’s dad discussed how not having equal opportunities meant that stability was not his first problem rather it was hoping for those rights which could then hopefully lead him to achieve stability. From these different ideas the reader can understand how even though stability is a core principle of the “American dream”, within the confines of that exact meaning there still remains a wide spectrum of how it can be interpreted into people’s wants and