The American Dream and Enterprise

Bill's journey to America to make his own fortune contrasts the old-world reliance on inheritance with the American ideal of self-made success through hard work and initiative.

Bill's plan to seek fortune in America reflects the theme of pursuing opportunity and success through enterprise.

The American Dream and Enterprise is one of the patterns Uneasy Money by P. G. Wodehouse returns to. The chapter notes above are from this edition’s companions — open those chapters to see how the book stages the idea rather than treating the theme as a slogan.