The American Dream In Ayn Rand's The Jungle

After the down fall they are cable of seeing the light at the end of the tunnel for once. They had purchased household necessities and had settled in, also they had managed to find job with wages they seem were reasonable. Everything seemed to be go right, well that is at least instill they had their veselija- a Lithuania traditional style wedding. In this wedding its customary to feed everybody no matter if invite or not. The wedding was a total of three hundred dollars, which normally the guest would have contribute to help to newly wedded couple pay the cost; however when having their wedding only a few helped, many sneak away without paying a cent. As well the saloon-keeper cheated the family saying that the guest consumed more than they actually did. The wedding left them a hundred …show more content…
Sadly, the truth that is reveal in the book, The Jungle, is that in America no one will get ahead unless stepping over people and taking advantage of them. The American dream is simply a naïve concept that only the ignorant believe and as well that it’s impossible to move ahead in America unless becoming part in its corruption. This believes caused death, suffrage, illness and their change in morality. In the end the American dream is a fairy tale without a happy ending.
Millions of immigrant raced to America during the industrialization era, in the late nineteenth century through the early twentieth, for jobs opportunities and high wages; disappointedly they were met with terrible working conditions, barely livable wages, encountered hostility and racism from the citizens of their new homeland. In Jurgis family because of the barely livable wages the woman and children were forced to work, despite Jurgis hard work in sweeping the entrails of slaughtered cattle