Fortune, ease of life, and a good future are what come mind when one thinks of the American dream. A dream one wishes to fulfill that is cast upon him by stories from the "nation of promise."� In our country, a good life comes from the amount of material object one is able to buy, and a good life is what the American dream is. In our class we have read many articles concerning the American dream. The Novel, the Mistress of Spices, also addressed the immigrant's struggle to achieve the American dream which, in many cases, lead to the worsening of life rather than the improvement of it.
The writer June Jordan addressed the isolated and materialized attitude the American people posses when she wrote, "Nevertheless, truly traditional / deranged / American images of the good life kept me in that wilderness, that willful loneliness, until somebody else came into the little house and raped me.
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Mistress of Spices
The Mistress of Spices (film)I remember thinking that there was no point to a scream, there was no point to struggling towards those enormous clear windows. There was nobody, anywhere around, to help. And afterwards, when I could make myself talk again, I crawled to the telephone and placed two long-distance calls: there was nobody local who would care"� (Reader, 63). As the quote implies, the American lifestyle is centered on maintaining a good life for oneself, and giving no regard to the others around him. The American dream is centered on the fact that one must gain material to achieve a good life. As June explained her experience, she told that there was no one to care for her, no one she could turn to for help, and lived her life in isolation because of the American ideals that the people subscribed to scared her.