Themes Of The American Dream In All My Sons

The American Dream

The American Dream is a phrase connoting hope for prosperity and happiness, it is defined as a set of ideals which are held by all individuals, traditionally thought to be available to every American. These ideals include freedom, equality and opportunity. They aim to ensure a life of personal happiness and material comfort as traditionally sought by all individuals living in the United States. The American Dream is the notion that the American social, economic and political system makes success possible for every individual, achieved through hard work in a society with few barriers. James Truslow Adams, an American writer and popular historian, coined this notion in 1931. In it, Adams wrote "the American dream is the hope of a

Miller describes him to be “A heavy man of stolid mind and build, a business man these many years...when he reads, when he speaks, when he listens, it is with the terrible concentration of the uneducated man for whom there is still wonder in many commonly known things” and also as “a man whose judgments must be dredged out of experience and a peasant-like common sense.” Joe Keller is a middle-aged family man who 's not a greedy caricature of capitalism, but a good-natured man with little education, whose world doesn’t extend beyond his family. Joe Keller had become wealthy and fortunate in his life financially, but his life turned into tragic as the story moves towards a final end. In the novel, the American Dream is only depicted through the economic way and it distorts people’s lives. The dream shows the true face of capitalism and shows how the actions of running after money by the protagonist make others suffer. Through Joe Keller, Miller tried to communicate the idea of how there are many people within the United States just like Keller. The chaos also prevails through the ladder of the American