I Hear America Sing: The American Dream Myth

People have come to this country for adventure, opportunity, freedom, and the chance to experience the qualities of the American Dream. The American Dream is a life of personal happiness and material comfort as traditionally found out by individuals in the United States. The American Dream shows the unique promise America has given its residents and immigrants for years. Although Walt Whitman states that the American Dream is truly plausible. In truth, authors F. Scott Fitzgerald and Barbara Ehrenreich strongly believe that the American Dream is surly just a myth. Many people have opposed to thinking that the American Dream is a myth. Opposers have come to believe that not only is it not a myth, it is truly plausible. In Whitman’s poem I Hear America Sing, he claims the American Dream is plausible. “Delicious sining of the mother, or of the young wife at work, or of the girl sewing or washing,” he writes, “Singing with open mouths their strong melodious songs” (Whitman, 36). Whitman is saying that the workers are proclaiming their identity and being the strength and voice of America.

However, people have come to believe that the American Dream just isn’t possible.
The obstacle's she faces aren’t easy such as being sick and not getting the day off, having to cater to the owners needs, and not being able to feel her back for being on her knees scrubbing the floors. “Do the owners have any ides of the misery that goes into rendering their homes motel-perfect? would they be bothered if they did know, or would they take a sadistic pride in what they have purchased---boasting to dinner guests, for example that their floors are cleaned only with the purest of fresh human tears?” writes Ehrenreich (Ehrenreich, 76). The American Dream for this women wasn’t possible because the fact that she has to be a beg and call for someone until she’s able to find a good decent