Misty Jennifer English 1101 126 10 March 2014 The American Dream is different to all of us. In the song that I chose to analyze, Reba McIntyre’s rendition of Fancy, originally sung by Bobbie Gentry, her path starts from poverty, and ends in an elegant New York Townhouse Flat. How she got there is not the path that many of us would choose. Fancy did not even choose the path; it was thrust upon her. In the opening of the song Reba talks about the situation that she came from. It was the summer she turned 18, and she lived in a rundown shack with her family. Her father had abandoned the family, the mother was soon to die, and the baby was going to starve to death. Somehow, she had to make her way in the world. Her mother spent all of the money that the family had to buy Fancy a ‘dancin’ dress’. To me this is equated to how some families go into debt to pay for their children’s education. The idea behind both paths is the same. The parents give all that ...
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