American Dream-Sara Bugler

The "American Dream" is pictured in films as the ambitious person taking their dreams of success in their hands and make a fortune doing it. There usually is a happy ending to their stories and everyone comes out smiling. The actualitiy of the american dream is that people will work their whole lives to see that fortune and that may never come. The idea of coming to America, to freedom and equality is not as it is. Equality has been fought for for many years and people are still fighting for it today. Freedom is an idea, not a fact. With the crisis the US is facing more and more people hoping for the American Dream are being turned down at the bank, the mortgage lender, the employer, even the border. I would't go so far to say that the american dream in dead, but it is definitly misisng.