The American Dream is being able to do whatever you want. The feeling of want for something better than what you already have. Anyone who has ever thought that they deserved a promotion or bought a lottery ticket, has at one point in their lives thought about something better for themselves. If they hadn't, then they would not have tried to get the new corner office space, or win that million-dollar prize. The idea of the American Dream still has truth in today's time, even if it is wealth, love, or fame. The thing that never changes about the American Dream is that everyone deserves something in life and everyone, somehow, strives to get it.
             Many people think that the Grapes of Wrath is a novel about the migrant farm workers in the 1900's. This is only partially true. Though the novel's focus is on the migrant workers, it is really the story of each man's search of the American Dream. The American Dream shows that each man has the right to strive for happiness. Although they might not ever find it, they will be better off for trying it. I did not especially like the Grapes of Wrath when I read it, but now I realize looking back on it that it is deep, thoughtful, and worth reading at least once in everyone's lifetime.
             Everyone in America wants to make some kind of financial success in their life. Sometimes living in a society makes many people become too worldly. This causes many Americans to be very greedy. This is all in search of the American dream. For most people, this high status is very hard to get. In Lorraine Hansberry's, A Raisin in the Sun, she shows an African-American family struggling to get out of the poverty which is stopping them from making financial stability, or the American Dream. Its main focus is on Walter's effort to make it, or be somebody. She also shows how race, prejudice, and economic problems effect a black mans role in his family, how he provides, and his identity.
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