Summary Of Stuck In The Class You Were Born In By Stephen Cruz
Response Essay
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Stuck in the Class You Were Born in.
Stephen Cruz is a Mexican man trying to get ahead in the business world, but slowly realizes that his minority social class is clearly a disadvantage to a successful climb up the corporate ladder. For this, the American dream is a figment of his imagination. In the oral history “Studs Terkel” by Stephen Cruz, he comes to question his own values and the meaning of success in the world of corporate America; however, The American dream may have been intended for everyone but the reality is; it is not.
In America it has only become harder to read a person’s status because of the clothes they wear, the cars they drive, the votes they
7/7/10
Stuck in the Class You Were Born in.
Stephen Cruz is a Mexican man trying to get ahead in the business world, but slowly realizes that his minority social class is clearly a disadvantage to a successful climb up the corporate ladder. For this, the American dream is a figment of his imagination. In the oral history “Studs Terkel” by Stephen Cruz, he comes to question his own values and the meaning of success in the world of corporate America; however, The American dream may have been intended for everyone but the reality is; it is not.
In America it has only become harder to read a person’s status because of the clothes they wear, the cars they drive, the votes they