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The American Dream is one of success, home ownership, college education for one's children, and have a secure job to provide these and other goals. -Leonard Boswell The Ladder to Success is often thought ofthe way to climb up the steps in achieving the American Dream. In all the books we've read over the year, they all have something to do with the American Dream. Whether it is the Great Gatsby, where Gatsby tries everything to win his "single dream" being Daisy (the love of his life), or if it's the Grapes of Wrath where the Joads try to head to California to create a new good life. The American Dream is different to each American, but the dedication and motivation that all American's have to climb up this ladder of success is strong and powerful.

Although everyone has their own American Dream, there is a certain Dream in which we all try to pursue. This dream is the "stereotypical" dream in which most American's look up to when it comes to achieving their own dream, or when people come to America they have this mindset on what the American Dream is. The American Dream can be anything, but it's what we grow up hearing about and as we grow up the more motivated we are to achieve this mystical American Dream.







The American Dream is often thought of as money equaling success and happiness.

"I have an idea that Gatsby himself didn’t believe it would come, and perhaps he no longer cared**.** If that was true he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream." -The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)

The idea that a dream might not come true doesn't really affect us, we are willing to sacrifice so much in order to achieve the American Dream and once we realize we might not able to achieve us, we lose hope. The American Dream is something that overpowers or every day life.

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