What is the american dream? is today american dream based on materialism? or is it based on the idea of freedom?

The American Dream is the ideal that he government  should protect each person's opportunity to pursue their own idea of happiness. This is achieved through sacrifice, risk-taking and hard work, not by chance.

At this moment America is a nation obsessed with shopping and buying unnecessary products. People are no longer satisfied with a nice house and a couple of cars but are almost sick with a constant need for more, more and more no matter what the cost. ( Shanzeh Khurram).

Under this statement above mentioned the American Dream is based on materialism.

answer: "the beating heart symbolizes the narrator's conscience, or his sense of guilt and wrongdoing" so its b

explanation:

"to look at him, or hear him describe it, he had no guilt. however, poe decided to symbolize this man's subconscious guilt through the heartbeat."

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