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Is the “American Dream” a good or bad thing as portrayed by Steinbeck in"Of Mice and Men" and Fitzgerald in "The Great Gatsby"?
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Is the "American Dream" a good or bad thing as portrayed by Steinbeck in Of Mice and Men and Fitzgerald in The Great Gatsby? The concept of the "American Dream" can be difficult to define accurately. In the words of the historian James Truslow Adams, who first used the term in 1912 in his book The Epic of America, it is "that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement...It is not a dream of motor cars and high wages merely, but a dream of social order in which each man and each woman shall be able to attain to the fullest stature of which they are innately capable...regardless of the fortuitous circumstances of birth or position." It originates from the sixteenth and seventeenth century, when European settlers regarded America as a land of...
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