American Cabral: What Makes Up The American Dream

Julio Cabral
Ms. Griffith 3B
13, May 2015

Success and happiness those terms is what makes up the American Dream or some may say just simply living the dream. When people think of the American Dream some may have the stereotypical version of being married having two kids and a white picket fence (“What Is
American dream”). Back in the 1920s people held that craving and want for social acceptance and to be just number one. Some have the thought of just being rich and staying healthy other want the same but just no worries and a perfect life for them to wake up smiling to. As George
Monboit quotes “If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in
Africa would be a millionaire.” Although everyone’s
For example
Andrew Carnegie in the 1920s American dream became him from being a poor Irish to a man who owned a million dollar company. Mass production, which was executed by Henry Ford he actually represented in that time what you were supposed to be by ideology and he quotes I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can 't be done”( so he has the belief anything can be done (Jose).Now people focus on getting quick money like being famous for things for just about anything. Everyone basically wants to live like the Kardashians sometimes to have the capability and success like them without actually doing anything. Versus the 20s and now the fortune that comes with the American dream has become greater than ever for the fortunate ones to prosper that dream. Secondly, high social status as John Steinbeck quotes “Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.” In the 20s everyone focused more on whose where and what they need to do to get their status at the highest rank. The high social status now is whose YouTube famous or being
Lastly, Success is the main goal to live out the American dream from the 1920s to present day. Failure is not option in this day and age and neither was it from the people who made it from poverty to success like Louis Armstrong. He went from a poor paper boy with a passion for music from New Orleans to one of the greatest jazz musicians. In this day and age it’s when it comes with living with the dream of success you just want the fame and attention and knowing that everyone will remember who you are.

In closing no one has really found the actual reason of what an American dream in vs. then and now we still have different ideas of what it all can consist of. Success, social status, and fortune all comes with the luxury life of what some of us call our American dream. The dream then was focused more on who was it now today people try to find what is it. To dream a fantasy and live the reality is something that sticks in all our minds to push harder to make that American dream ours and keep hold of it. The American dream is a goal and a trophy you win when you’re all was put into creating it and getting it to that point so it’s not a dream but a