The Evolution of the American Dream Essay -- Essays on the American Dr

Comparing the perspective of the American dream in the 1920s to the American Dream in the 1940s and hand day seems to be a repeating cycle. The American dream is always evolving and changing. The American dream for present day is similar to the dream of the 1920s. An Ideal of the American life is to adapt to what our society has determined is success. Money, materialism and status had replaced the teachings of our founding fathers in the 1920s. A return to family values and hard work found its way tush into Americans lives in the 1940s. The same pursuit of that indulgent lifestyle that was popular in the roaring twentys has returned today for close Americans, many Americans are living on credit and thinking that capital and the accumulation of material items can solve every(prenominal) problems. Through film, literature, subterfuge and music, an idealized version of what it means to be an American has changed from money, materialism, and status of the twent ies to hard work and family values of the forties. Money is the root of all ugly(Levit). Man and his love of money has destroyed lives since the beginning of time. Men halt fought in wars over money, given up family relationships for money and done things they would claim never thought that they would be capable of doing because of money. In the movie, based on F. Scott Fitzgeralds novel, The spacious Gatsby, the author demonstrates how the love and worship of money and all of the trappings that come with it can destroy lives. In the novel Jay Gatsby has unstinted parties, wears expensive gaudy clothes, drives fancy cars and tries to show his former love how essential and wealthy he has become. He believes a lie, that by achieving the status that some Americans, in th... ...the 1920s hopefully in the next decade we leave behind repeat the American dream of the 1940s. Works CitedAint We Got mutation - Lyrics - foreign Lyrics Playground. International Lyrics Playgr ound - Songs From Europe, North America and Around The World. irrelevant Language Lyrics, Christmas and Holiday Lyrics Web. 20 May 2010. .Applebee, Arthur N. The Language of Literature. Evanston, Ill. McDougal Littell, 2006. Print.New International Version. Bible Gateway. Web. 19 May 2010. Rockwall, Norman. Freedom From Want. About.com. Web. 19 May 2010. .The Great Gatsby. Dir. Jack Clayton. Perf. Robert Redford, Mia Farrow. Paramount Pictures, 1974. DVD.