What Is The American Dream - 1094 Words

Most Americans are unsatisfied with their lives. So many people live their lives discontented with where they are in life. They are discontented with their status in society, the money they make, goals they have yet to achieve, their profession, how they didn’t complete their schooling, and the list unfortunately goes on. We as Americans have a large advantage in comparison to most societies within the world, we have the freedom to live the American dream. What is the American dream? The Declaration of Independence states it is â€Å"Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.† We as Americans have great privilege, unfortunately this is also our downfall. I believe that our discontentment with our lives and the way they are being run is a large†¦show more content†¦His sons have failed his dreams that he set out for them. He longs for wealth, success and to be acknowledged within society as having ‘made it’ in life. He is in all aspects of his mind a failure. He believes that he is a lowly character, he has no self-confidence in himself as a human being. He has great dreams but no ambitions to accomplish them. The unfortunate part of it is that he is wealthy. He may not have money or fortune, but he has a wife who loves him, children who care for him greatly, and a roof over his head, food on the table and a stable job; which he appears to have loved at one point. He is a rich man, not in his pocket book, but in the company that is kept and the things we take for granted in this life. His great motivations are wealth made quickly and a dream to become successful within society. Unfortunately, Willy struggles in dealing with reality. He has mental struggles due to his perception of himself within his reality. Due to the overwhelming pressures of the realities of his low-key and consistent failures within his life; Willy’s mental health begins to disentangle. The tensions du to his many disparities, as well as his status within society that seemingly drive Willy to be the man that he is, cause him to struggle mentally; that mental struggle,