The American Dream: The Future Of The American Dream

What is the American Dream? Is it to gain a surplus amount of wealth to spoil yourself in all your glory? Is it to have a purpose, a place, be equal in society and feel accepted? The American Dream could be different people, but typically the society of America are all trying to achieve the same goal. However, the dream is not set-in-stone; the American Dream changes, as socially different cultures come and pass. Therefore, as they come and pass, what will this dream for Americans might be in the future?

According to the Library of Congress, as well, citing James Truslow Adams, the American Dream is defined as and is "…a national ethos of the United States, the set of ideals (democracy, rights, liberty, opportunity and equality) in which freedom includes the opportunity for prosperity and success, as well

Whitman identifies the American Dream as people “singing” their melody at their occupation, meaning they are going to work happily. Years later, in the 1920s, the American Dream has changed. Illustrated by F. Scott Fitzgerald in his fictional book, The Great Gatsby, published in 1925, the American Dream is shown as something that is destroyed, resulting to be our doom, endlessly pushing us back into our past. Fitzgerald wrote, “...he stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way, and far as I was from him I could have sworn he was trembling. Involuntarily I glanced seaward--and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away, that might have been the end of a dock. When I looked once more for Gatsby he had vanished, and I was alone again in the unquiet darkness” (Fitzgerald, 1925). Taking place in the beginning of the