Matthew's+Dreaming+in+America+Reflection

Frank Sinatra reminds us that Americans are willing to transform into "a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet, a pawn, and a king" for the pursuit of the American dream. But unlike Gatsby, when Sinatra pays a high a price for living too long with a single dream, he manages to "pick [himself] up and get back in the race." The photo of the Olympic swimmers represents how aggressively Americans pursue the American dream. No matter how far we reach, our dreams will always be reorganization of past ideas and experiences projected towards the future. The American dream is about our vitalizing struggle against the current; not the achievement of our goals. The photo of the man sitting in nature represents a lost moment when man's capacity for wonder was able to manifest itself in reality. As we see in the photo of the iconic American family of the 50's, dreams are growing rapidly in strange and material direction. In //The Pursuit of Happyness// trailer, we see a less-fortunate American dreamer fighting for a dream as powerful as Gatsby's, but at the most fundamental level.

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