The American Dream in Death Of A Salesman, by Arthur...

Success: Accomplishing Your Dream Completing the American Dream is a controversial issue. The American Dream can be defined as having a nice car, maybe two or three of them, having a beautiful, healthy family, making an impact on the world, or even just having extra spending money when the bills are paid. In the play Death Of A Salesman, by Arthur Miller, the American Dream deals with prosperity, status, and being immortalized. Willy Loman, a hard worker aged to his sixties never accomplished this goal. He always talked the talked, but never achieved to walk the walk. Willy Loman would always talk about who hes met and how he has always well known and liked, but truthfully he never was. Willy: Hes liked, but†¦show more content†¦Charley: It was a very nice funeral. Linda: But where are all the people he knew? (REQUIEM, lines 7-8). Willys funeral was tiny as well as his talk. Willys dreams were shallow and unlived even until his death. Success was part of Willy Lomans dream. Willy dreams of both he and his sons being successful. Willy: Bernard is not well liked, is he? Biff: Hes liked, but hes not well liked. Happy: Thats right, Pop. Willy: Thats just what I mean. Bernard can get the best marks in school, yunderstand, but when he gets out in the business world, yunderstand, you are going to be five times ahead of him. Thats why I thank Almighty God youre both built like Adonises. Because the man who makes an appearance in the business world, the man who creates a personal interest, is the man who gets ahead. Be liked and you will never want. You take me for instance†¦ (ACT I, lines 270-272). Biff and Happy, the Loman brothers, are two blind followers, falling for Willys dream. They have never seen what Willy has actually done. Theyve heard the words. Louis Gordon wrote this about the play: Hap, less favored by nature and his father, perhaps as Willy was in comparison with Ben, has escaped the close ness with his father that destroys Biff in social terms. Thus worshipping his father from afar, Hap has never fully come to realize that phony part of his father and his fathers dreams. He does have longings to be outdoors and to get away from theShow MoreRelatedThe American Dream in Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller1127 Words   |  5 PagesMany people dream of the American dream. To have a big house, two kids and a picket fence. In Arthur Miller’s play Death of a Salesman every character uses lies and deceit as a way to escape reality. With this said, it is only Biff’s character that is dynamic, realizing the error of his ways. Constantly, each character escapes their problems with deceit. Even Biff remains in this state of falsehood, until he reaches his epiphany. The main character Willy Loman, is constantly fooling himself intoRead MoreThe American Dream in Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller1598 Words   |  7 Pagesalways been prominent in the American culture. 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