The american dream in the 1930s was stability, employment, and the ability to feed your family.
The 1930s were the heart of the Great Depression. Unemployment was over 15% for most of the decade, and reached as high as 20%. Further, the Dust Bowl drove many people out of farming in the midwest, making them homeless as well as unemployed. The prosperity of the 20s was a memory, and people were hungry, beat, and hopeless.
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health, wealth, and happiness is the American Dream
For kids: Rock and Roll, sex, drugs, the Beats For adults: Since the '50s was consumerist, the American Dream was to live in a suburb with 2.2 kids (Thank you statistics) and a homemaking wife. The purpose of life was pretty much to buy every appliance available on the market and make a good living. For blacks: To get rights For women: To get appliances (the fight for rights began in the 1960s)
diverse cultures view the American Dream as an great opportunity for them to get better in life.
It is the dream where you are falling but never seem to hit the bottom.
The American dream manifests itself many ways in the American life. For example, many people work hard to own a home and a car and get a good education.