Willy's American Dream He Had All Wrong

In "Death of a Salesman" by Arthur Miller, the main character Willy Loman is battling himself to find his way as he is consumed with reaching success. The highs and lows of the Loman family, yearning for the stability of riches. Everyone has dreams of hope and progression to make their imprint on the world.

The fact that Willy is driven by material goods is undeniable. He is an individual who is intensely sensitive to his outer image. This may be an insinuation made by Miller that adhering to the American Dream has the potential to cause a person to be shallow, greedy, and possibly trivial. Furthermore, following the American Dream may be correlated to becoming overly invested in how other people perceive them. This idea is consolidated by the importance that Willy places on being well liked. It is Willy's goal in life to have everyone around him like him and to gain a well established sense of importance. Additionally, as Willy comments that he should have bought the same refrigerator as Charley, it signals that he is a man who will never be

Many immigrants come to the United States in search of the American Dream, an idea that one can start from the bottom of the employment food chain in hopes to become successful and live a comfortable life, despite what your background may have been. In The Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller portrays this idea of the American Dream through an everyday, run-of-the-mill character, Willy Loman. While he did not immigrate to America, he still chases the American Dream ideal. He finds himself in dire need of financial support, and his job is unable to supply him with the amount that he needs. Willy faces several conflicts, both external and internal, throughout the play, and these conflicts affect his relationship with other characters, specifically

Embedded deep within the historical the play ‘Death of a Salesman’, penned by the late Arthur Miller greatly portrays a specific ideology in regards to values, dreams and goals. ‘Death of a Salesman’ vividly showcases the American dream that society tends to strive for even in the early 1900’s, the era in which the play was written. That dream of being a successful business person or vendor. As well as the theory that image and physical attributes are most important to gaining fruition! Miller does a unique job throughout the characters, Willy, Ben, and Biff to portray how diverse the American dream is in regards to one's perspective.

People always have hopes and dreams that are way bigger and better than they can live up to. Their lives will not be as they would have hoped and be more depressing to them when they do not live up to what their dreams were. Not everybody knows what they are really capable of and are not willing to admit it when they are not. In “Death of a Salesman” by Arthur Miller Willy’s view on the world is messed up, his dreams are failing, and he has led his children in his path.

“Death of a Salesman” is a play written by Arthur Miller about the consequences of following the “American Dream” blindly. The “American Dream” is the ideal in which freedom and prosperity can be achieved through hard work, but in this play is mistaken for the belief that being “well liked” will lead to success and prosperity. Due to the fact that Willy Loman, the protagonist, mistakes the ideal for being well liked, he fails to achieve his goal in life. Therefore, Willy retreats into his past in order to cope with the failure of never having met his dream by reliving pleasant past times of success, to understand where he failed in reaching his goal, and to make peace with his shortcomings. These hallucinations are his only way to correct the

In Arthur Miller’s play, Death of a Salesman, Willy Loman's pursuit of the American Dream is characterized by his selfishness, demonstrating how the American Dream can subtly turn into the American Nightmare. However, Willy’s role is quite important because he often led to failure through the creation of the American Dream and the real world. To fully understand the storyline of Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman, one must evaluate each member of the Loman family. The death of Willy Loman implies that the American Dream brings hope to many but an American nightmare to most.

Arthur Miller is one of the most successful and enduring playwrights of the post-war era in America. He focuses on middle-class anxieties since the theme of anxiety and insecurity reflects much of Arthur Miller’s own past. The play addresses loss of identity and a man’s inability to change within him and society (Miller 16). The "American Dream" has been an idea that has motivated society for centuries. It often times becomes the main theme for many movies, novels, and poems. In, "The Death of a Salesman" main character Willy Loman decides he wants to make this dream a reality. He soon is faced with this reality when his idea of the "American Dream" he had been working for turns out to be unattainable. The American dream vision of economic opportunity is available to all those who work for it regardless of race or class. Wily Loman represented the primary target of the dream (Miller 20). Just as most middle-class working people, he struggles to support his family with financial security and had dreams about making himself a huge financial success. After years of working as a traveling salesman, he has only an old car, an empty house and defeated spirit. Dysfunctional family tragedy helps to keep the American Dream alive. Linda and Happy work very hard to keep the fantasy of the dream of success alive. Dysfunctional Loman family, the wife is restricted to the role of housekeeping and bolstering her husband’s sense of self-importance and purpose (Miller 60). Linda juggles

Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, examines the destructive myth built around the American Dream and in it he offers an indictment on the American capitalist system.  Through the protagonist, Willy Loman, Miller demonstrates the struggles of obtaining the American Dream in a shallow and materialistic capitalist society. However, throughout the drama we see that the main character, Willy doesn't even realize he is living in a capitalist society and continues to use the wrong methods to attain success and accomplish his version of American dream. In the end, it is Willys false beliefs that lead to his demise.

The American Dream is the ideal of working hard to achieve success within the United States, and as our nation evolves into a new technological revolution, in which oppresses that of the Old World, it becomes harder to define what the true meaning of success is, just as in the play “Death of a Salesman,” written by Arthur Miller. The characters in the play each struggle to find what the American Dream actually is in attempt to gain success within it. Each of the Loman men pursue their own ideals of what the American Dream means to them, and as a result, they deviate from the important things in life in attempts to mold and innovate their own version of the dream. The main character of the play, Willy Loman, a diluted man who believes having a prominent personality is the key to success, replaces the real interpretation of the American dream- prosperity and hard-work ethic- with an empty dream motivated by his brother Ben who believed that starting from nothing and creating a fortune was the American Dream. Willy is adamant in coercing his two son’ s into his own definition of success, in which deteriorates as he realizes that personality nor good looks can pay his bills or earn him the respect he deems plausible. As the play concludes, Willy and his family all realize that he has pursued a hollow life, ultimately meaning that he’s chosen the “wrong” dream.

“In the greatest country in the world a young man with such—personal attractiveness, gets lost.” Willy Lowman, the protagonist in Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, expresses such an expectation as he wholeheartedly upholds the undertaking of the American Dream. As his two sons, Biff and Happy, repeatedly fail to fulfill their potential successes, Willy never abandons hope and copes with the letdowns and disappointments by having routine fantasies. However, while his daydreams become more and more prominent, they begin to affect his ability to function, which in turn leads to a downward spiral in his career as well as his relationships. Willy’s loving and supportive wife, Linda, fuels his imaginations in hopes of nurturing him back to his usual self. Nevertheless, due to Willy’s twisted perception on how to achieve success and his tendency to dream, Willy never actually acquires his “promised” fame and fortune, which drives him to commit suicide at the end of the play. Through Arthur Miller’s utilization of symbols, his depiction of Willy’s fantasies, and his employment of Willy’s opinions regarding success, the audience can detect the reasons as to why the Lowmans were unable to achieve the American Dream.

In the tragic play, Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller, Miller shows the dark side of those living in America who strive for success. The play follows a 63-year-old struggling salesman living in the late 1940’s by the name of Willy Loman. Willy aspires to be wealthy and known by living out the American Dream so he could support himself and his family. However, Willy, being the tragic hero, ultimately fails in completing any of his goals. The suffering brought upon by Willy Loman and his obsession with the American Dream contributes to the tragic vision of the play as a whole because Willy was destined to fail at the get-go, his vision of the American Dream conceals reality, and Willy’s beliefs that he holds dear are false.

In Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, Willy Loman finds himself trying to achieve the American Dream by any means necessary and ends up breaking apart his own family. His misconstrued view of what it takes to reach the American Dream leads him astray and sets him up for a life of failure. After everything he has put his family through, Willy believes he can correct matters by taking his own life and seeks to provide the American Dream for his family, after his death.

The play Death of a Salesman, revolves around the character Willy Loman. Willy Loman is a salesman, who was taken off his salary recently and was put on commision. Willy is a man who believes in the “American dream” even though he never seems to achieve it. He has two sons, and all he wants for them is to be successful, because in reality he can not achieve the dream himself. In the play Willy tells his sons that “the man who makes an appearance in the business world, the man who creates personal interest, is the man who gets ahead.”(Miller 33) In the play, Willy comes off as a man who thinks that the American dream is all based off of success and how well known they are in this world.

From the beginning pages of Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller, the reader is easily able to understand the personal view from a salesman, Willy Loman, that the most important methods of achieving American dream lie in one’s successes in the economic life and social life. In the opening discussion that Willy had with his wife, Linda, he talks about his son, Biff, and how Willy does not believe that Biff was trying to achieve the American dream. Criticizing Biff, he exclaims to Linda, “How