What Is the American Dream Essay

The idea of the American Dream is that if you work hard, you can be successful and build a better life for yourself and your family. Millions of Americans have believed in this for many generations. But does the American Dream still exist? We ask ourselves this because many families struggle to make ends meet every day, for many years, only to fall further behind. What is happening to the American Dream? What does the American Dream mean today? To some, it can mean being able to find a good…

since the beginning of America, everyone has had a dream. These dreams vary, everything from money, love, knowledge, happiness, and freedom. Even in the novel The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald focuses on the reality of the American Dream through characters like Daisy Buchanan, Myrtle Wilson, and Jay Gatsby. Fitzgerald embodies the American Dream of money through Daisy Buchanan, a women of class and wealth. Daisy Buchanan achieves her dream. For instance, when Gatsby first invites Daisy and…

The ‘American Dream’ The ability to become successfully wealthy, popular, and most importantly, happy in America is difficult to obtain, unless one was to grow up in a rich, social, and happy family. Other than that, it takes some time and work. There are infinite amounts of views on the desirable American life that go back when blacks were still slaves and women had no rights, but one of the most common views, is the accomplishment to gain wealth and prosperity, and an equal opportunity…

The American Dream has often been portrayed as a lifestyle in suburban America, in that if you work hard, long hours you will be able to achieve wealth and happiness. However there is a dark side to this, as it implies that happiness has been tied to materialism and wealth. This casts a blight on American society as being driven by greed to have materialistic wealth, instead of strong family ties or relationships like the ones America was built upon. The American Dream has been transformed…

The American Dream is to be able to make life better than where the person is emigrating. To change the path their past life lead to, the American Dream became the opportunity for everyone to make a new life for himself or herself by having the chance to get a job. Fitzgerald views the American dream as something that is long gone and long since forgotten. He defines it as a dream that was just that, a dream. In the Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby was the epiphany of a failed American dream. He wanted…

The American dream exists as a driving force in the daily lives of the characters in The Great Gatsby. From the most important, Nick, to the least important, Jordan, each person gains access to their dream by being born into, marrying into, or befriending those in the sought after lifestyle of glamour in the 1920s. Everyone has their own version of the American dream, and in The Great Gatsby, the pursuit of this dream either enhances the character’s life, or leads to their demise. In the 1920s…

Within the book Gatsby’s American Dream is to have Daisy by his side, for Daisy it’s having her daughter act innocent and ‘dumb’ so she can get a wealthy man. The American Dream is important and it has many meanings, my American Dream is to have good health within my family and those around me and to have a bright future. In the book some of the characters American Dreams are hard to identify like Nick’s, one thing that stands out over and over throughout…

The American Dream has become into an aspiration that people has given up. The people hasn’t only gave up, but also it has made them believe that there is no way out. The America’s social system and class are viewed as barriers that enable us to lose hope of reaching the “American Dream” due to barriers such as capitalism, fear of taking risks, low wages, and becoming the illusion that the American dream is possible. The biggest fear for any person in the United States and throughout the…

James Truslow Adams’ publication, The Epic of America, defines the American Dream as “that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement.” (Adams 214-215). Yet, The Great Gatsby portrays the Roaring Twenties as an era of decayed social and moral values, as the author explores, as well as reveals the decline of the American Dream. F. Scott Fitzgerald develops a plotline that appears to be a romantic…

In the definition of the American Dream by James Truslow Adams in 1931, “life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement regardless of social class or circumstances of birth.” The definition of the American dream may differ for different people, but it all relates to creating a better life for oneself. Eleanor Roosevelt is an example of the American Dream. She redefined the position of the first lady, helped to create the…