GRASPING THE GIST ABOUT THE AMERICAN DREAM

Abstract

The American Dream is commonly known as the destination of a land for freedom where life should be better, richer and fuller for everyone. That land which offers opportunities to everyone according to his ability or sense of achievement. A dream according to which , all people can succeed through hard work, and that all people have the potential to live in happiness and prosperity. This paper intends to thrash out the concept of the American Dream as depicted by Horatio Alger Jr’s fiction Ragged Dick or, Street Life in New York with the Boot Blacks . This article explores , through the lens of a social class interconnectedness in a post-modernism approach, some contours of the hero’s transformation from a ragged homeless boy of the streets to a respectable person in the same society.