The American Dream- of Mice and Men & the Great Gatsby

In Of Mice and Men, what does John Steinbeck have to say about the American Dream?

This novel took place during the Great Depression, causing citizens to be homeless,

jobless and all around broke. Steinbeck made it obvious that the American dream is not

achievable depending on your status. If you are poor, like George and Lennie, you will

never change you economic status. If you are other than white, like Crooks, you will face

inequality and discrimination. If you are woman, like Curley's wife, you will never be

Independent. This time period was about hopeless people with forgotten dreams as

Steinbeck portrays in the novel. He portrays that only the rich can achieve their dreams.

In The Great Gatsby, what does F. Scott Fitzgerald have to say about the American

Dream?

Fitzgerald is saying that the American Dream is something that everyone lusts after

so much that we will do anything to get it, but all in all end up in failure. Gatsby achieved

the American dream of being rich, but illegally, which he did for Daisy. Gatsby's dream

was about Daisy. Daisy herself portrays the American Dream, as she is the person that

everyone is after. She has the "voice of money". In the end no one achieves their dream,

but the rich as they can escape with their money. Fitzgerald portrays the lost American

dreams due to the tragedies towards the end of the book. Gatsby's dream of having Daisy

was long gone after she married Tom Buchanan, but Gatsby does not realize it and never

will. His dream fails when he was killed. Fitzgerald says that only the rich can escape

from problems and always be fine.

In your opinion, what is the current status of the American Dream? What would most

people say the American Dream is?

Today in society, the American Dream, for most people, is to be rich so they could

fulfill all their wants and needs, but at the same time do nothing to accomplish those

goals. They just want money without work.

For some...