Theme Of The American Dream

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The American Dream was a tremendous theme during the late 19th through mid-20th century. The dream was an idea of becoming rich, spending money, and more than all, the achievement of happiness. Many people took advantage of this door for greater opportunities. Unfortunately, not everyone got to achieve this ideal dream, although some that were lucky did. Due to this circumstances, writers like Kate Chopin, F. Scott. Fitzgerald, and Arthur Miller were inspired during this decade. Part of their writings focused in search of how family 's lives were being affected in society by this dream. Their main subject portrayed how many American families were broken apart through the pressure of society norms. The three selections, “The Storm,” “Babylon …show more content…

As many writers like Kate Chopin, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Arthur Miller they used "The Storm", "Babylon Revisited", and Death of a Salesman to illustrate how the American family was being torn apart by the pressure of societies moral standards that preventing them from achieving happiness. Kate Chopin used her characters to denote the pressure from religious norms that had to be followed in order to be incompliance with society. Fitzgerald proves how the pressure of becoming prosperous impacted his lifestyles with consuming alcohol and slowly separated from his family. Meanwhile Arthur Miller uses his characters to show how the idea of acceptance in society does not make families happy but instead be in a fantasy dream. Despite the fact that many families did not achieve the “American Dream” and were struggling through everyday life without true happiness, societies did not fully understood the true meaning of family and happiness. Today many families continue in search for the meaning of what is like to achieve the American dream, but turn out to experience similar life’s as the story characters, without a family, love, and without

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