Salesman American Dream

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‘’ How can he find himself on a farm? Is that a life? A farmland?! In the beginning when he was young, I thought, well, a young man, it’s good for him to tramp around, take a lot of different jobs. But its more than ten years now and he has yet to make thirty five dollars a week!?’’ (Miller 11). Willy’s personal representations of the American dream are his brother Ben and the salesman Dave Singleman and he views the success of these two men as a proof that he can indeed attain the success he is so desperate to achieve, so there are two versions of the American dream in Death of a SALESMAN AND Willy fail to achieve any of them as he misunderstood the basic concept of the American dream which is the hard work to achieve whatever you want, but …show more content…

However the actual tragedy of Death of a Salesman is not that Willy fails to achieve his promising prosperity in his American dream, but rather that he buys into the dream so completely that he forgets or ignores the real things around him, such as his family love. Willy without question kills himself for money by committing his suicide at the end of the play in order to get his family the enough money from his life insurance policy,; it could strongly point out that the American dream could turn a human being into a product. Simply, Death of a Salesman is an anti-myth play, the myth of the American dream, its story of the failure and death of this dream by Willy’s death (Murphy …show more content…

Willy’s world of illusion get him fell that he’s great at his job, has material wealth and the most important he’s well-liked. On the other side the reality versus illusion concept is interpreted by the other members of Loman family, we have Lina who can see the reality, she knows that Willy has been trying to kill himself, she knows that he get money from charley and pretends it’s his salary but she doesn’t want to embarrass him. Happy also is live like his father creates his own illusion of happiness and success in his life when in fact he’s lonely, in contrast Biff learns that his father illusion or dream is not real after he see him with his mistress, he said:’’ I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been, we’ve been talking in a dream for fifteen years’’ (Miller

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