What Is A Real Rags To Riches Story?
This Friday is the birthday of the person whose name is so synonymous with rags to riches tales, they actually refer to them as “Horacio Alger stories.”
However, there are many fallacies associated with both the man and the over 100 stories he wrote about boys rising out of poverty.
- Generally speaking, the boy never ascends to riches. It’s a middle class life they aspire and rise to.