The American dream is a tacit promise given to all citizens in this country, which states that regardless of social class, any individual can aspire to new heights based upon the ideology of meritocracy. The American dream is a "recurring theme in American literature"(Pearson) and in American societ...
It was during this time when the war was still rather fresh in everyone's memory and wealthy people wanted to forget and have as much fun as possible and so people would splash out on expensive things such as cars and parties and live meaningless, yet social, lives. ...
F. Scott Fitzgerald's, The Great Gatsby, and John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, are two novels that deal with the tragic culmination of the American Dream, personified through respective protagonists. However, these protagonists are perceived very differently as a result of the different narrative pe...
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." A timeless statement by Thomas Jefferson that epitomizes what the American Dream origina...
