Many people have the idea of the American dream being a straight shot to success, but William Zinsser explains how that just simply isn’t true. In order for someone to embody the real meaning of the American dream, they have to experience success as well as failures, for it is those failures that teach us the most about how to achieve success. In the media, we see far too many examples of products that will make the rise to greatness a walk in the park, giving people the wrong idea of what it takes to accomplish the American dream. In William Zinsser’s “ The Right to Fail”, he points out that from day one, teenagers are being pushed towards the ideologies of being successful by graduating from college. He calls out our “goal-oriented
