The American DreamThe American Dream is a national philosophy of the United States. The American dream could be anything; it could be achieving financial success, obtaining an American passport, obtaining freedom, or obtaining rights. Every American has a dream, and that dream is the American dream. In recent years, the American dream has become a very popular central theme in American literature and is featured in novels such as The Great Gatsby, Death of a Salesman, and A Raisin in the Sun. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech is considered the most important rhetoric in the world. King Jr. expresses the effects of visible injustice in the United States in the 1950s and exposes his opinion to the public. King Jr. says, “I dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, suffocating with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. » Blacks were treated like animals throughout the Southern states. Martin Luther King Jr. speaking out on the ongoing struggle for black rights was his American dream. Holden Caulfield, in JD Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, is a teenager who resists the idea of ​​becoming an adult. Holden wishes he didn't have to grow up and deal with situations that adults face. Holden says, “…I keep imagining all these little kids playing a game in this big rye field and everything. I have to catch up with everyone if they start going over the cliff. I just wish I was the catcher of rye and all… but that’s the only thing I’d really like to be” (Salinger 173). Holden's American dream is to become a Rye Catcher, a person who protects or saves children from adult problems. Hold... middle of paper... or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond its work, climbs the stairs of its concepts, emerges ahead of its achievements” (Steinbeck chapter 14). A man is ready to build anything to achieve what he wants. A man will do whatever he needs to do to satisfy his desires. The journey is perilous and in California, we try to find respect, equal pay and equality between people. The American dream is a very diverse subject in which everyone can want what they want. People might try to do anything to fulfill this fantasy. American literature of all eras has the feeling of an American dream and it is established through the protagonist of the story. The American dream may not always come true at the end of the story, but a dream is a dream. The American dream is waiting to be realized for all the American people.