George part3

    I very agree wade definition of the American dream is freedom, rights, equality of opportunity and wealth. American Dream represents America's aspiration and more rich life. this man very good understanding of the documentary, he used the "Monopoly game", this is very good example for park avenue.  we can through this example understand in a capitalist society, the poor people are getting poor, the rich people are getting rich. so in such an environment ordinary people is difficult to realize the American dream.

John part3 byJoseph

I very much agree with Joseph's point of view, now the American dream is not the original American dream. The American dream now exists only in deceit and dishonesty. Most of the money in the United States is in the hands of just one per cent. Like the novel Daisy and Jordan, like the temptation to indulge in money. Even at the expense of love for the money and choose betrayal. Even Gatsby in the novel uses some dirty, unlawful means to get money. So I think Joseph's point is right.

part 1 John

The American dream was originally to express this freedom, democracy and power. But I think the American dream is not true now, and now there are many people willing to use deception in order to get more money to get. In the film, it is expressed that fifty-five percent of the economy in the United States is held by one percent of the wealthy, and only forty-five percent of the economy is in the remaining percent Ninety-nine people in the hands. So there have been rich and poor areas. In the novel, Daisy married Tom for money and then fell in love with Gatsby after Gatsby had money, but in the end she had framed Gatsby. From these two points can be seen now the American dream is not realistic.

George part2

  In my opinion, I think the American dream is dishonest. because of the American dream means everyone can realize their dreams, do you want to things and more rich life, everyone is equality and freedom. but the fact is not like this, the fact is not everyone can live a rich life and realize their dreams. each person has a different star, some people has rich life when he was born and his life is some one else wants. this is many peoples American dreams, in the eyes of other people they are think this is not fair. the equality is everyone is same star rather than different star. the American dream is everyone can realize their dreams, but this is impossible things, because everyone is different star so get the chance of success is different also. and the Great Gatsby give us show different people has different life. tom is a was born in a wealthy family, but the Gatsby is a was born a poor family. tom this main characters in the story is a rich man, he don't need hard work for life, his life in the eyes of other people is the American dream. he believes in basic inequalities of people based on birth. everyone want to become to tom cause of don't need hard work can get all and achieve the American dream. in the park avenue with inequality and the gap between rich and poor. all the residents in the park avenue have one half people life is very hard, and the other half is rich people. this is why the American dream just a dream, because it is very difficult to achieve and this gap is not hard work can fill.

 

Bill Part 2

  After I finished the book ‘The Great Gatsby” and the movie ‘Park Avenue: money, power and the American dream’, I found that the American dream is a lie, and it is also an illusion to encourage people who don’t belong to the upper class to work hard.

  In the book ‘The Great Gatsby”, Gatsby is a person who has the American dream which is marring daisy and Gatsby is the type of people who has the ‘New Money’. After the World War I, Gatsby became rich by working hard. But Daisy did not marry with Gatsby, because Gatsby is a dishonest person. This is most important reason that Daisy did choose Tom instead of Gatsby. She is afraid of Gatsby because he was making money by selling alcohol and having some underworld business. Tom is another character in the book and he is on the opposite side with Gatsby and he has the ‘Old Money’. The definition of American dream is the ideal that every US citizen should have an equal opportunity to achieve success and prosperity through hard work, determination, and initiative. There is no doubt that the Gatsby’s American dream did not come true, even though Gatsby was working hard and rich enough.

  The three main words in the title of the movie are: money, power and dream. Obviously there is a connection between the three words; dream comes up with money and power. In today’s society, to step into the upper class is almost impossible for the normal person. So I think American dream is an illusion, just like the main character Gatsby who got money and power. Did he achieve his American dream that is getting married with daisy? No he didn’t. The reason why Gatsby is a dishonest person is he has a not very clean history even Gatsby didn’t want to talk about it. So that is the most important reason that I think the American dream is a lie.

Comment:

I agree with Bill, I also think the American Dream is just a lie for the optimistic people who cannot achieve their dreams. Bill said the American Dream is an illusion, because whatever Gatsby tries his best to marry Daisy, he can’t make his dream come true. He also said the definition of the American Dream is US citizens could achieve their dreams through their hard-working. After Gatsby came back from the World War I, he did some businesses and became rich, but his dream which is being with Daisy never came true. In my opinion, Gatsby owns money and powers, he is in the top class in the society, but his dream is an illusion in the reality, he can’t make his dream come true because he cannot use his money and power to change the attitudes of Daisy. Gatsby worked hard but he didn’t make his American Dream come true even when he died, being with Daisy is just his day dreaming, and it’s like the American Dream which is just an optimistic lie.

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Wade(Liu,shiliang) Part 2 The Deteriorating American Dream

The Deteriorating American Dream

 The definition of the American Dream is full of people’s imagination about a perfect life: fairness, justice, opportunity, wealth. But in my view, I believe that it is hard to be achieved.
  The American can be achieved by dishonest, but actually most of American can not be achieved by anything. The American for everyone is not same, everyone has them own American dream. The American dream of Gatsby is Daisy. Daisy is a high society woman, Gatsby is also a symbol of the pursuit of high society. Gatsby at the expense of the pursuit of this woman, this woman is the surface of vanity, inner hypocrisy, just as Fitzgerald described the American high society. Although Gatsby is obtained by unlawful means of wealth, New York's politicians and business celebrities are still frequented the Gatsby home rave party, once Gatsby in distress, Gatsby's life on the extravagant jealousy, and Daisy also betrayed him, pushed him into the dark.
 The park avenue show us a game called “Monopoly game” but it has difference the normal Monopoly game. He lets one of the players start at least twice as much as the other player. He observed that the "rich second generation", who had more fortune in their possession, won the game more easily than the other, and they quickly generated a sense of superiority in the game, the other "poor second generation" And not the slightest sympathy.This movie use just 50 minutes from the extreme point of view the rich and the poor combined with the US political system explains why in a capitalist society, the poor people are getting poor, the rich people are getting rich.