In my opinion, American Dream is unattainable
for people to achieve, only a little people can realize the American Dream. The
original purpose of the American Dream is stimulating people to work harder for
a better life but now the situation is that the rich become richer, the poor
become poorer. The reason lead to this result it that American Dream is unrealizable.
All the people want to have a job which has high salaries, and own a huge house
and luxury car. And the fact is that if the person is a normal person and
nobody help him, it is almost impossible for him to realize the American Dream.
“The idea of American Dream is that
everyone got an equal opportunity, but in fact there is a large group of people
that experience the game as unfair, the opportunity is not there, all the rules
have been decided. The property has already bought up and the money is already
in the hands of other players”. This quotation is from the documentary Park
Avenue. The experiment shows that the richer player can win the game easier
than the poor player. It means that poor people is hard to achieve their goal
by their hard-working, including the American Dream. The documentary also shows
that why the poor people become poorer. It is because that the richer make the
government reduce the education funds, then the poor could not attend school,
after that no employer wants to hire them and the result is that they become
poorer. If the poorer could not earn money, the American Dream could not be
realized.
In The Great Gatsby, Gatsby also shows that
American Dream is unattainable for people to achieve. For Gatsby, the American Dream
is that getting rid of humble origin and enter the upper class, own money, status
and woman. Firstly, Gatsby earn huge amount of money but he still could not own
Daisy completely, it equal to the failure of American Dream. Secondly, the way
that Gatsby earn money is illegal, it means his American Dream represents the
death of conscience and the loss of morality, it also is a unsuccessful American
Dream.
To sum up, American Dream is unattainable
for people to achieve, no matter you are rich or poor. The only thing is that
rich people can achieve a little bit easier, but it may not in a legitimate way.
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