Armanisreflections


 * The American Character,** can be defined in many ways but the most broad yet simple terms are Male and Female. The American character cannot be one definition, because the way males and females are treated in America are completely different. The male in America is the one we often think of to success and money, the man who was able to succeed in the American dream with his women in the side, in simplest terms the Male is dominant gender in our society. Ever since the puritanical society that US was founded on, the cult of true womanhood has existed, and although we can progress forward the two characters will always remain separate and different.
 * The Ladder to Success,** is different for everyone. We all have this mindset of pursuing the American Dream, one of the stories that truly shows the "American Character" pursuing the American Dream is "The Great Gatsby". Gatsby spends his whole life trying to achieve a single dream, winning over Daisy. Daisy was his true love and he was willing to do anything to win her. Although we all have own dreams and motives, we all have the same drive to achieve what the American Dream is to us. Although there is stereo typical American Dream that people think is the ideal dream, which is climbing up the ladder to success, that means getting a good education, going to college, pursuing a good job, getting married, and having a family. The American Dream can mean anything to you, it's just the idea of succeeding in America and our drive and motive to achieve us.
 * Beauty in America,** is being overpowered by media in our society. In America today, there is a certain image on how people should look and we drive ourselves crazy by trying to create this certain image. Magazines, TV shows, and all sorts of media is sending out a message that you need to be a certain weight, height, and have a certain look in order to be beautiful. Beauty in America is not shaped by us, but by the media on how they think perfection looks. America has and always will be about perfection, although it's gone to far when people are striving for something that they cannot achieve. Look at barbie for example, she is what many little girls look up to and hope to look like as they grow old but when you look at the facts that is not healthy. "In a street car named desire," Blanche says that a "Women's Charm is 50% illusion" that is something that relates to our society today, we think that women in our society look as though they do but are often photo shopped to look like this "perfect figure" but it's an illusion that none of us can achieve.
 * Being Different in America,** is something that has been an issue in our past and even our modern day society. Although we have progressed forward we are still not equal, there are still many issues that lie in our society today. We learned this from many of the books we have read over the course of the year, we learn that all these underlying issues of race, gender, and et cetera will always lie in our society. USA is known for being equal, but are we really that equal? there are still issues of people not having equal rights whether it comes to marriage, education, and other things that impact our everyday life. The US strives for perfection, but just like in the "Grapes of Wrath" we often think about "I rather than we" and we have to change that, it's time that being different america is accepted that everyone has the equal rights they deserve.