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In Facing Up To The American Dream: Race, Class, and The Soul of a Nation by Jennifer Hochschild, she explains that there are various kinds of success embodied in the American Dream. She claims that success can be absolute which means that achieving the American Dream implies "reaching some threshold of well-being, higher than where one began but not necessarily dazzling."(p.16) Success can also be relative in which achieving the American Dream consists of …

…Dream, one must live freely and happily, instead of by another person's restricting definition of the American Dream. This is what our forefathers meant, that is why they revolted against the English to win freedom, and why Americans even today strive to achieve what they think is right, such as Civil Rights, Women's Rights, Affirmative Action and many other controversial issues. It is related to personal freedom, economic freedom, political freedom come directly from Hollywood,