The American Dream

The article I read said that one of the key points in the American Dream is the quest for money and I totally agreed. The American Dream has completely changed it used to be about family and financial security and some may argue that it still is, but it really isn’t. It used to be thought that anyone could obtain the American Dream through hard work and sacrifice but that certainly isn’t the case anymore. The article I read pointed out that to get the American Dream today many people you get rich quick schemes, television shows, the lottery, and lawsuits. People would rather have the American Dream given to them than to have to actually work for it. The American Dream today is has become a warped version of what it used to be. The American Dream used to be that through hard work and sacrifice you could have everything you needed the American Dream use to be modest now it’s just greedy. The new American idea of success is “whoever dies with the most toys wins” my article pointed this out to me and I completely agree this mentality is something that our society has thrived on ever since the deterioration of the American dream, slowly replacing it as time went by. The things that really matter like family, love and honor aren’t included in today’s American dream; unfortunately values aren’t valued at all. We can even see this in the Great Gatsby when Tom talks about the city of ashes, he call it a horrible place, but is it really? The city of ashes to poor yes but that doesn’t make it horrible. The people there are just as good as the people who live in the Eggs and probably love each other a whole lot more. The people in the Valley probably know that they will never be ever to live in the Eggs so they focus on the more important things people, each other. The burden of being rich is not theirs to bear because being rich isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. The Valley people aren’t in a fog the people in the Eggs and they can see that money, houses, and cars aren’t everything. They figured out a long time ago that the more you get the more you want and that’s just how we are today. The American Dream is no matter what you have you can always get more, so get more by any means necessary