Critical Insights: American Dream

“The American Dream” is a phrase that has become an essential component of the American experience, a phrase that, once entered into the national lexicon, has come to define our nation’s identity, underlying nearly every aspect of our lives. And since the birth of the founding document of our nation, the Declaration of Independence, the idea of “the American Dream” has become a pervasive and frequently deconstructed theme within the canon of American literature.