There are many different interpretation of the whole meaning of the American Dream. James Truslow Adam, in his book The Epic of America, mentioned “that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement. The belief of everyone having an equal opportunity and working hard. How this relates to the context of the film relating to James as his quote can be interpreted in a sense that Duke and his attorney had worked hard and could sit around and relax.
From the start you could have said it was an “American Dream”. Rather not a single scene that describe the “American Dream”, but in a sense the whole movie was. As they didn’t pay anything