The American Dream is white picket fences, freshly cut bright green grass, the smell of homemade apple pie, fresh groceries from Whole Foods, and a three-person suburban house floors in a safe neighborhood. It is the worry-free state of a financially secure career, marriage, and children. The American Dream perpetuated in movies, television, entertainment, and the media is the rags-to-riches story of not the very rich, but the upper middle class. “…our media is national in nature and has a specific purpose. These media play a key role in defining our cultural tastes, helping us locate ourselves in history, establish our national identity, and ascertain the range of national and social possibilities” (610). The dream seems easily attainable through a get-rich planning business. It's something that you try harder for and is defined differently, but I'll get back to the whole point of how to become great and get out of bad circumstances. People travel miles and across oceans to get it. While many people in America take their situation for granted, many immigrants travel miles for the opportunity to realize the dream. Once here and settled, many immigrants come to the conclusion that achieving the American dream is more difficult than previously conveyed. Even though the news, media and social networking sites tell us otherwise, the chances of succeeding are few and far between. The American elite keeps alive the anger towards the wealth value of the American Dream to inspire people to work harder. This gives the lower class people who work for them inspiration to work harder to get into their positions. The elite shows off their big houses, their fancy cars and tells the story of how they got to the middle and lower class workers. This helps ensure that people have the same dream. Meanwhile, the great elites know how difficult it is and how slim the chances of succeeding are