September 29

Cruz’s story shows that if luck doesn’t happen, then finding the American dream is very hard. Cruz contrasts the idea of the American dream by giving examples of not being able to rise to the top because of racial stereotypes. The main character gets jobs that have a good pay but it is mainly because he is different from all of the other applicants because he is Mexican. Once he gets the jobs, he realizes that there is not much room for him to succeed in the business because the higher ups said he needed to learn the business. It showed that Dick was just very lucky in getting a job where he could start at the bottom and get to the top. Most jobs do not work out as well as that one did for Dick. The two stories were similar in the fact that they both displayed the ability for a person at a lower class can get a job and become part of the middle or upper class.