The American Dream is dead or alive? It depends on who we ask. A TV show and an author give us two different answers for this question. One answer for whether or not the American Dream is dead or alive comes from Weeds season 4 episode 6. Weeds is a show about a single mom that her husband just died young of heart attack. The mom, Nancy, is trying to keep the family afloat, but there is no way for her to make enough money for the high lifestyle her family use to. Therefore, she decides to deal weed for an easy way to make high income, especially in the rich neighborhood she lives in where everyone high all the time. The other answer to that question given by Brandon King in his article, “The American Dream: Dead, Alive, or on Hold?”. King
