How Does Willy Get Misguided Dream

In the set-up to the play we learn that Willy has come home early from his work trip because he is not longer able to drive and he can’t do his job. His son Biff is home after working as a farm hand for many years in the West. It is revealed that Willy’s mental wanderings are getting worse; he is preoccupied with Biff’s aimlessness and inability to find success in business. As the development continues, Linda informs her sons that Willy has been trying to commit suicide and tells Biff that his father’s life is in his hands. Biff needs to get a job and get serious – or take the blame for his father’s actions. On the same day, both Willy and Biff’s high expectations are dashed to the ground. Willy goes to his boss, Howard, to try to get a non-traveling job but ends up getting completely fired.
Meanwhile, Biff waits for six hours to see Oliver, only to be reminded that he is a nobody in the man’s eyes.
The climax comes when Biff gets honest and destroys Willy’s dream and Willy finally realizes that Biff loves him. Willy starts chatting with the imaginary figure of his brother and considers killing himself. Now that Willy has realized that Biff loves him, he wants to do anything he possibly can to make his son successful. Willy commits suicide. Biff rejects his father’s misguided dream, but Happy runs with it. At the conclusion of the play, it is totally clear that Willy was wrong about himself. Not that we ever thought otherwise, but practically no one comes to his funeral. Biff now realizes that his father didn’t know himself and picked the wrong path. He will certainly not follow in his father’s footsteps. Happy, on the other hand, defends his father’s misguided dreams and decides to take them on
himself.
Willy is a rather insecure guy. He tries to make himself feel better by lying to himself and his family. In Willy’s world, Willy is a hugely successful salesman. Occasionally unable to maintain this image of strength, Willy often despairs and pleads with successful people around him for help. Despite these efforts, it is clear that Willy Loman is not popular, well liked, or even good at his job. In fact, he was never was.
Linda is Willy's devoted wife. She obstinately refuses to not believe her husband's lies. Linda’s mission: protect Willy's dreams. Much of Linda’s devotion lives in her not knowing the truth about the full picture here, from Willy's finances, to his job, to his mistress. This cluelessness is why Linda defends her husband's behavior even when he has lashed out at her.
Biff is Willy's oldest son and the one that Willy likes the most. Biff was a high school football star. He never put much into his schoolwork and failed math as a senior. Much of this was caused by Willy, who would let him get away with anything and never encouraged him. Failing math his senior year, Biff couldn't graduate and therefore couldn't make use of his football scholarship to college.
Willy Loman and Hamlet, two characters that seem so alike, yet are still different. These characters are perfect examples of tragedy in literature. Truth and illusion are utilized in Streetcar Named Desire and Death of a Salesman through the use of the character; to lead the reader to a possible conclusion on the beliefs that characterize the American dream. Most everyone in America would like to achieve the American dream: Success. Oftentimes living in a capitalistic society, people become materialistic. Vanity can become a characteristic that many Americans exhibit. This is a side effect in the pursuit of the American dream. For many Americans, the dream is very difficult to achieve. In Death of a Salesman, we see how difficult it was for Willy Loman and his sons to achieve this so called American dream, and these people were proud Americans. In A Raisin in the Sun, the author examines an African-American's family's struggle to break out of the poverty that is preventing them from achieving some sort of financial stability, or the American Dream.
In both Death of a Salesman and Streetcar Named Desire the main protagonist of the play(s), Blanche Dubois and Willy Loman are both trapped in an illusion that has been created by the effects of society, however these illusions that have been created are used by their protagonists for separate reasons. Blanche uses the illusion as a defense mechanism against those who suppress her in society while Willy simply is not consciously aware that he is even subjected to the illusion of a land of opportunity. From Raisin in the Sun we see that living on the Chicago south side, doesn't represent the American dream that Walter so badly wants to attain. In this part of town there are no big yards or picket fences where most white American kids have while growing up. Speaking from experience, the American Dream is one of the most difficult things to catch ahold of.