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    In her novel "The New American Dreamers," Ruth Sidel argues that the American Dream of material success through individual effort remains valid, and that women have progressed since the feminist movements of the 1960s. Sidel concludes that women are capable of achieving the American Dream. She provides anecdotal evidence from diverse women discussing their aspirations. However, the women provided no plans for achieving their goals and saw marriage as a means for financial stability rather than love. While prejudice exists, apathy also prevents women from making real efforts to succeed. The author argues the American Dream now emphasizes superficial materialism over individual potential. However, it still provides hope and motivation, even if true success may be impossible.

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    In her novel "The New American Dreamers," Ruth Sidel argues that the American Dream of material success through individual effort remains valid, and that women have progressed since the feminist movements of the 1960s. Sidel concludes that women are capable of achieving the American Dream. She provides anecdotal evidence from diverse women discussing their aspirations. However, the women provided no plans for achieving their goals and saw marriage as a means for financial stability rather than love. While prejudice exists, apathy also prevents women from making real efforts to succeed. The author argues the American Dream now emphasizes superficial materialism over individual potential. However, it still provides hope and motivation, even if true success may be impossible.

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    In her novel The New American Dreamers, Ruth Sidel asserts the validity of the American

    Dream, or materialistic success determined by independence and effort, as well as the societal
    progression of women following feministic revolutions of the 1960s; ultimately, Sidel concludes
    that women are morally, intellectually, and naturally capable of achieving the American Dream.
    The author provides anecdotal evidence, detailing the aspirations of socio-economically and
    ethnically diverse females, as well as generalizations in regards to the independence of women;
    Sidel emphasizes the potential of upcoming generations to foreshadow a society of affluent,
    unlimited females, thus simulating a liberating and limitless future of equality. The author
    affirms both the American Dream and its accessibility in order to juxtapose the suppressive
    paradigm of society to the authoritative, unhampered desires of young women. Her empowering,
    unfaltering tone, stimulated by invigorating pathos, invites or provokes disciplined females while
    degrading a hypocritical, prejudiced society.

    The interviewed females willingly detailed their lofty aspirations, but provided no plan or
    courses of action to obtain the American Dream. While prejudice does hamper working
    conditions for women, apathy within a submissive generation results in the accumulation of
    lackadaisical ambition. The American Dream has degraded because of diminished effort on
    behalf of the populace; Americans are merely dreamers overwhelmingly obsessed with the
    abstract and confounded by the concrete or parameters of success. This societal digression is
    evident in other aspects of the Dream portrayed in Sidels novel; marriage is presented as a
    binding contract necessary for financial stability, and has deleteriously evolved from biblical
    principles of love and devotion. Females mentioned in the novel acknowledge husbands as a
    synthetic necessity, to provide a semblance of completion in regards to the American Dream.
    Society has also harbored a mechanistic drive for the materialistic; the former Dream elevated
    the individual and emphasized potential and self-worth, whereas the interviewed women strived
    for an elegant house and flashy vehicles. However, despite the degradation and notable
    inaccessibility of the Dream, it is necessary within modern culture. The American Dream
    stimulates hope, a tangible recognition of abstract sentiments for the impossible. Without the
    potential of the American Dream, I would not strive to be Madam Secretary; but does the
    impossibility of the Dream create an apathetic populace, or is true effort justly rewarded by the
    semblance of success?

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