Persuasive Essay On The American Dream

Have you ever felt like you are living the life of someone else? Have you done something just because it worked for everyone else? Is it possible to buy happiness? Have you ever felt like everyone else know the secret to life, the thing that makes everything so much easier for them, it tells them how to think about something, what to do with their lives how to be happy? This secret is the delusional belief in the american dream. Our lives revolve around the american dream, so much so that we lose sight of the true morals and values we should live our lives based on and we build our personalities on our material possessions. People who still have agency over their personalities separate themselves through the formation of counter cultures, however there counter cultures are inevitably consumed by the mainstream society. From birth we are bombarded with the standards, we are raised to conform to the superficial life society has created for us. We are consumed by the american dream, so much so that we dedicate our lives to blindly following it, we use it as a way to distract ourselves from the corrupt and sorry state that our world is in, the sad reality is that our lives
The irony in this is that even when we are close to achieving the american dream and supposed happiness we are really just as far as we were when we started. For example in “The Great Gatsby” Gatsby sees the light on Daisy’s dock from his house and it is bright green, showing his reliance on the american dream and as he achieves his dream the light fades much alike how the dream fades and happiness is not achieved. This relates greatly to real life in that the american dream can bring your life purpose but once achieved your life becomes once again meaningless and despite the promise of happiness once achieved you are simply empty of emotion and your life has no