Open Prompt 5

2007.

The old saying “If at first you don’t succeed, try try again” has little merit if one does not also learn from their mistakes. In The American Dream, Mommy and Daddy have had a dreadful experience with adopting a child, yet they attempt to go through it again, asking for the same instant gratification they requested before. Mommy and Daddy’s inability to come to terms with the past causes them to continue to pursue 

a conformist american dream and not be able to achieve satisfaction.

 White picket fences with two point five kids are the traditional images of the american dream. Unfortunately it has become more and more common to view this as the only american dream. Daddy and Mommy have fallen prey to this and it results in them being compelled to adopt another child. Mommy is the biggest culprit to conformity as seen in her escapades in buying a hat. She needed to be on the same page with the chair of her woman’s club even if it meant causing a large amount of trouble for another human being. After the first child adoption went horribly wrong a normal person would most likely decide to not have another child, but Mommy us dead set on having her satisfaction even though it is apparent that her life choices are not accommodating to one.

 This inability to learn from the past has caused Mommy and Daddy to not be able to reach proper fulfillment in there lives. They continually feel empty as evidenced by the continual inability to reach satisfaction with mundane things such as appliances failing. Instead of re-evaluating their lives though, they continually try to appease this faux american dream. It even causes them to mistreat the one sane individual who is able to learn and adapt, so much so that she leaves the household.

Mommy and Daddy’s inability to learn from the mistake of adopting a child, due to there obsession with an conformist american dream cause them to have a deficit of satisfaction in their lives.