Denial is a burden manifested by Americans on a quest to...

Denial is a burden manifested by Americans on a quest to ascend the social structure. Whether you are an American native or an immigrant coming into America, you are struck with the expectations of America and the classical American life. It’s a new setting, a new scenery, a new lifestyle; different from the ones that you grew up knowing like the back of your hand. We expect to have certain new freedoms when living America; such as freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and freedom of equality. Yet, this is not so. Our freedoms did not come as a gift or as a welcoming package into America, but instead they came with a price. A price that seems to be unpayable no matter what we do. It seems that as Americans try to move up the†¦show more content†¦Since he is a physician, John believes in practicality and facts, often brushing away his wife’s imaginative comments. Because of his job and who he is, John denies the real problem which is the role of being a physician and husband to his wife. He continues to deny the severity of her case and the tre atment that he made her do, which pushed her case further down instead of helping her to recover. John had too much pride that what he was doing was right in terms of being a physician but he denied his first role as her husband. Everyone has an American dream, â€Å"our too young-too new America†¦, insists upon seeing the world in terms of good and bad†¦It hugs the easy way out and dawning those who cannot understand, of excluding those who look different, and it solves its nonsense with a self- draped dark of righteousness†(Wright). We constantly think of America as a scapegoat from wherever we came from. We could even imagine the song, God Bless America, â€Å"God Bless America, Land of the Free...† For most, just saying the word, America screams out freedom. Some may feel that America is the threshold to our society. But when we came to America, it is not what we thought it was. Freedom was no longer that screamed out at us, but instead poverty, diseases, hardship, labor, and so on. How is it that we have been deceiving ourselves for so long? Simply, denying the reality of it all; continuously denying all the flaws and imperfections