The American Dream The American Dream… There's a reason they call it a dream, as a modern nation America has created an unattainable ideal of absolute, perpetual and total prosperity. “The American Dream.” This Dream which we have today is a glutinous perversion of what our forefathers envisioned for us. Today it has been twisted into a smoke screen used by the rich to keep people in there place and out of there way. The dream as it is today is no longer achievable, for now instead of an achievable goal it is an unending unyielding pursuit of more. The American Dream has been a subject of writing for many years across different genres, if the writings are studied in chronological order one can see the evolution of the dream and the increasing desperation in the act of pursuing it. The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald is the prime example of the American Dream in the 1920s, wealth, luxury, power, more. More?! Gatsby had done what …show more content…
The fathers fought to protect the yet to be conceived American dream, not just by battle but by outlining its general form. The Dream was first outlined in a notorious document that every American knows, The declaration of independence. In its first and simplest form the American Dream was “The pursuit of happyness.” As written by Thomas Jefferson. However at this time the dream was out of reach of many. The slaves of this time period could only dream of true freedom, equality and prosperity. After the civil war and the emancipation proclamation a new world was open yet as many found the dream was still out of their reach. Then the Dream was redefined in 1931 as a “Dream of land in which life should be better and richer for everyone. . .” Notice the grammar, “should be better.” Even in its early childhood it was declared a possibility rather than a certainty, a concept rather than