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Historical Roles of American Dream

In general, the American Dream is the spark that animates American life. “It is a shimmering vision of a fruitful country open to all who come, learn, work, save, invest, and play by the rules.” (Jillson 7) In the course of American history, this promise of opportunity and sense of possibility has quickened the national pulse from the beginning and has tied each generation to those that came before and, just as importantly, to those that will come after. The American Dream has helped America to attract talents from all over the world, bringing new blood for the fast development of America. CBS News anchor Dan Rather reported that all of the people he interviewed have a “sense of the dream’s presence, and importance, and feel that America has made their own dreams possible. This commonality, this interconnectedness between our own dreams and a national ethos of aspiration may be the dream’s most important contribution to the America of today and tomorrow.”(Jillson 7) However, problems reflected in the pursuit of the American Dream also contributed to the improvement of American society and social systems.

The American Dream reflects the spirits and pursuits of generations of Americans, which led them to settle on the New Land, brought them together in American Independent War and th