I would say that in today’s society, people
would follow a combination of the American Dreams of Biff and Willy. I say this
because people are different so it would be very hard and weird to actually say
all Americans follow one of these dreams. From my personal experience with American
soil and some friends, I say that people tend to choose from these two dreams
in order to make them their own. First of all, Biff’s version of the American
Dream would be all about freedom and choosing whatever you like and being happy
with that. On the other hand, Willy’s version of the American Dream was all
about materialism and wealth coming from that.
If we were to analyze, then there would be
a combination of this dreams where people would want to get wealthy by
following whatever they like and not from one job that makes a lot of money. There
is also the option of just going with Biff dream and follow whatever you like
and then see if we choose the right path or not. In almost all occasions, the
option that is chosen then would be the right path, as the person likes to do
what he chose. Finally, when looking at Willy’s dream, there are people that
just look at the wealth part because they want to be able to get money because
money (in their minds) is the factor that determines who we are so if we have
more, then we, at that point, start to feel happy.
I can conclude that people would tend to
use a combination of these two dreams because the idea of just following the
money was also related to the idea that parents would decide the life options
for their kids. In today’s society, I don’t think that most societies follow that
idea because every man and woman is free of choosing from options because they
look at what is best for their own life.
