How Is The American Dream Shown In The Story The Necklace

Dreams come and we fight to achieve them. Everything around gets in the way and can sometimes destroy them. It's like a mouse and rat trap, the mouse is chasing the scent of the cheese that's on rat trap, once the rat find the cheese and goes to eat it the rat trap closes on him and bam the rat can never reach the pleasure of eating the cheese. The American Dream is what gives people hope and a dream that can be destroyed. Being careless can destroy the American dream, the short story “The necklace” by Guy de maupassant puts the main character in a not so responsible position that leads to her American Dream being destroyed. The Government can destroy the American dream as well. In the Poem Thank you, Herbert Hoover from Annie the musical and the book The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien set the characters in government related situations. The reputation of oneself can destroy the American dream of themselves. Our America and The things they carried give example of what happens when you follow a

Our America has an example of people who follows someone else's footprints. “what's happening with Janell is like what’s happened to a lot of kids in the neighborhood” (Jones and Newman, 59). The way someone represents themselves could be from seeing others do the same it's a monkey see monkey do thing. The things people do will always be judged. The Things They Carried gave a different view of the representation of oneself. The way one presents oneself is notice by crowds of people; “My hometown was conservative little spot on the prairie, a place where tradition counted, and it was easy to imagine people sitting around a table at the old Gobbler Café on Main Street, coffee cups poised, the conversation slowly zeroing in on the young O’Brien kid, how he damned sissy taken off for Canada.” (O’Brien 23). The way one decides to represent themself with their decisions can ruin their American