The American Dream In The 1940's
The American dream as defined in 1940’s is “That dream of land in which life should be better richer and fuller with the opportunity for each ability or achievement (Ameado 1).” This relates to Willy Loman in the pursuit of happiness by the amount of stress it takes to run a household and keep all the bills paid. What makes it harder is with the new generation and all the modern technology which results in more stress to Willy. This is because he is part of the older generation and really does not like change and new technology because of not knowing how to sell to the new generation. This causes Willy a lot of stress which causes personal health problems and problems with his family. Willy’s main health problem is mental degradation which
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Accomplishing the American dream in the 1940’s was a task that most people dream of completing and did Willy ever make it. First in the ownership part of the American dream Willy had a house that was paid for. Willy also always had the best car that was out there for anyone to own. Willy also has a job that was great at one time which when the play takes place everything is changing with new technology and his career is starting to go down the drain. Willy made a statement, “Working a lifetime to buy a house and then no one to live in it.” He means when saying this that he had to work his whole life to buy it and once its paid for his kids are grown and moving out. Then he has no use for a big house. Biff the oldest of Willy’s two sons had failed with the American dream due to he worked on a farm as a ranch hand not making very much money and at thirty-four he had no life plan. He thought he would be able to get a loan from an old boss of his but when he did go see his old boss the man didn’t even recognize him. He had a major problem stealing and no one could really trust him. Reason being at thirty-four and not accomplishing anything he’s a proven failure. Happy, the second son of Willy, never could hold a job in a big corporation. In working towards the American dream, this was a type of job you wanted to have. Happy’s biggest problem that led him to fail at the American dream in the sense of his job is that he always lived jealous of other people at his job that were higher on the corporate
Accomplishing the American dream in the 1940’s was a task that most people dream of completing and did Willy ever make it. First in the ownership part of the American dream Willy had a house that was paid for. Willy also always had the best car that was out there for anyone to own. Willy also has a job that was great at one time which when the play takes place everything is changing with new technology and his career is starting to go down the drain. Willy made a statement, “Working a lifetime to buy a house and then no one to live in it.” He means when saying this that he had to work his whole life to buy it and once its paid for his kids are grown and moving out. Then he has no use for a big house. Biff the oldest of Willy’s two sons had failed with the American dream due to he worked on a farm as a ranch hand not making very much money and at thirty-four he had no life plan. He thought he would be able to get a loan from an old boss of his but when he did go see his old boss the man didn’t even recognize him. He had a major problem stealing and no one could really trust him. Reason being at thirty-four and not accomplishing anything he’s a proven failure. Happy, the second son of Willy, never could hold a job in a big corporation. In working towards the American dream, this was a type of job you wanted to have. Happy’s biggest problem that led him to fail at the American dream in the sense of his job is that he always lived jealous of other people at his job that were higher on the corporate