The term
"American Dream" was coined by James Truslow Adams (October 18, 1878, to May 18,
1949), an American journalist, in his 1931 book The Epic of America in
which he stated:
The American Dream is that...life should
be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or
achievement....It is not a dream of motor cars and high wages merely, but a dream of social
order in which each man and each woman shall be able to attain to the fullest
stature...regardless of the fortuitous circumstances of birth or position.
This notion of an American Dream was set up in opposition to the
aristocratic society of Europein which a person's birth determined their social and economic
fortune in life.
In a sense, Blanche DuBois, with her dreams of the Belle
Reve plantation, represents a European dream of a hereditary aristocracy with a role in life
determined not by her abilities or efforts but one to which she is entitled by birth. Even her
efforts to fantasize...
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