Death Of A Salesman And Glengarry Glen Ross

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In the plays Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller and Glengarry Glen Ross by David Mamet both have the concept of being revolved around family. Both of these plays are revolved around family everything that the men in the plays do is for their families. While it may not seem like it some of the time but it really is for their families. Which ties in to the American Dream and making sure your family is happy and has a house, a car and food in their stomachs. In these plays the characters do everything to make sure their family has what it needs no matter what it takes, try and make their family happy, and shows what the American Dream is. In the Death of a Salesman Willy the main male character is going crazy. Even though he is going crazy …show more content…

When he lost his job and didn’t have money he did not tell them that he was jobless he went to charley to get money. Even though his son Biff did not want to become a salesman Willy tried to push Biff to be the best that he could be by becoming a salesman. Willy was trying to make Biff be happy by making him successful. Willy just went the wrong way with trying to make his family happy he should of let Biff be successful in his own way and then he would be happy with how he did it. Willy says throughout the whole play that being successful is being happy. In the Play Glengarry Glen Ross there was not really the same making their families happy like there was in Death of a Salesman. In Glengarry Glenn Ross it was more about keeping their jobs and trying to prove that they can be closers by closing bad leads. The only person that really talks about …show more content…

In the play Death of a Salesman Willy’s life is kind of a picture of the American Dream. He has a good job until the end of the play but he owns a home and a car has a nice family with two healthy boys. To many people the American Dream is happy but in this play for the most part is not happy between the family members. For most of the time Linda is just sticking up for Willy because she was to worried about herself and Willy than to listen to her own sons that kind of ruins the whole view of the American dream. To have the true American dream your family has to get along so that is one way that this play kind of contradicts itself. Part of the American dream is good economy without good economy you cannot have good steady jobs so therefor it would be hard to own a house and a car and be able to feed and supply for your family. In the play Death of a Salesman the setting is set after the war so the economy is not too good yet. So it is tough for people to get good jobs or keep jobs that they already had and provide for their families. In the play Glengarry Glenn Ross is a good example of the American Dream even though it does not talk about what houses or cars that the characters have but it talks about how they are fighting for their jobs and to do good at their jobs. The characters have a sit which is when they have to close on three real estate properties or they will get fired. The characters in the play

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