How Do Americans Interpret The American Dream?

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How do Americans interpret the “American Dream”? From the outside, Americans have unlimited freedom and endless equality. They have houses, money, and respect, but is that what everyone coming to America for their “dream” is looking for? The American Dream can change for every person, though it has become something far from what it was meant to be. In the Article “The American Dream” it says “Several critics contend that the American dream has morphed into a concept that differs significantly from what the Founding Fathers had envisioned. Today, many Americans view fame and money as marks of success,”(The American Dream) The vision of the American Dream from an American perspective is money and fame. Still, someone coming from a third-world …show more content…
The world contradicts itself in so many ways and confuses us on what to believe or when to stop believing in something, so how will we ever know what's acceptable in our world today? While reading the article “My American Dream Sounds Like the Jackson 5” something intriguing popped up which says “I never knew exactly what the American Dream was. For all its talk of universal opportunity and exceptional potential, it's so haunted by rebuttals and contradictions that any song that embodies it would need to have, well, everything.”(My American Dream Sounds Like the Jackson 5) There is such a realness to this, because if the American Dream only had one meaning the “Dream” people are chasing would have to fit every desire, feeling, and want, into one to make sure that everyone is satisfied including the people who already have the “Dream” so many people are running for. So who is anyone to say what the American Dream is, if it’s not what they want it to be? In The Great Gatsby, a man does everything he can to achieve his “American Dream” and have all the money and land someone could want, but does that money buy him