The American Dream has been believed by countless Americans throughout history ever since the founding of America. It represents a belief built upon the American ideal of equality and opportunity for everyone, although the dream has not been made equally accessible to everyone due to social inequalities. In his paper “Reaffirmation and Subversion of the American Dream,” USC professor Walter Fisher analyzes the 1972 presidential election between President Richard Nixon and Senator McGovern. What really interested me is how he divided the American Dream into two sides: materialistic and moralistic. Based on what I learned about this semester, I defined the American Dream as a combination of the two: The promise of an equal opportunity for all to succeed in achieving their dreams. In his analysis, Fisher argues that the presidential election represented the divide between these two ideas, as President Nixon represented the materialistic American Dream and Sena