Why Is The American Dream Wrong
A fragile mind. An inconvenient job. A regretful past. When life begins to break down dreams, a rude awakening can occur and change lives. The way someone decides how to deal with such difficult problems can ultimately be viewed as right or wrong. In the play, Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller analyzes the topic of The American Dream, which plays an important role for each member of the play. The main character, Willy Loman, has a dream to be a well liked salesman. Although he has the right intentions, Willy did not strive to make his dream real, leading him to failure. Willy Loman desires luxuries with his occupation as a salesman, but the numbers of sales he makes and money he obtains does not match up to the success he imagined
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This, is where Willy ends up falling short. In the play, his personality displays him as angry and cold, this shows that he will have a hard time communicating to strangers, especially the people he is selling to. Willy tells his family in the play that others adore him in the towns he visits while working. Unfortunately, this is not true and Willy confesses to his wife, Linda, that he is looked down upon and people view him as a joke. Willy says “The trouble is Linda they don’t seem to take to me. I know it when I walk in. They seem to laugh at me.” (24). Since Willy is so hard to like, he ends up failing at his job due to lack of sales. This results in Willy being fired as a salesman. Afterwards, Willy receives an offer for another job by his neighbor, Charley, which he refuses to take. This is due to the fact that Willy is too prideful to accept this job. Consequently, Willy has now reached a low in his life where he can be considered a failure. Willy lets his arrogance in the way of a well paying job that would be simple for him in the many aspects he had wanted from his past job. Willy’s son, Biff, says to him “ Will you take that phony dream and burn it before something happens?” (99). Biff realizes how Willy’s dream is affecting him in a negative way and confronts him to tell him he has to stop letting it control him. Willy paved the path to failure himself as he did not try his hardest to prosper with his
This, is where Willy ends up falling short. In the play, his personality displays him as angry and cold, this shows that he will have a hard time communicating to strangers, especially the people he is selling to. Willy tells his family in the play that others adore him in the towns he visits while working. Unfortunately, this is not true and Willy confesses to his wife, Linda, that he is looked down upon and people view him as a joke. Willy says “The trouble is Linda they don’t seem to take to me. I know it when I walk in. They seem to laugh at me.” (24). Since Willy is so hard to like, he ends up failing at his job due to lack of sales. This results in Willy being fired as a salesman. Afterwards, Willy receives an offer for another job by his neighbor, Charley, which he refuses to take. This is due to the fact that Willy is too prideful to accept this job. Consequently, Willy has now reached a low in his life where he can be considered a failure. Willy lets his arrogance in the way of a well paying job that would be simple for him in the many aspects he had wanted from his past job. Willy’s son, Biff, says to him “ Will you take that phony dream and burn it before something happens?” (99). Biff realizes how Willy’s dream is affecting him in a negative way and confronts him to tell him he has to stop letting it control him. Willy paved the path to failure himself as he did not try his hardest to prosper with his