Taught Me Purple Analysis
Hero’s Recognition
Both Willy and the mother from “Taught me Purple” by Evelyn Tooley Hunt, have the same unrealistic expectations and false dreams. They fantasize the truth until they can no longer bear to live in reality. They hold the American Dream so high in their minds that “In its lack [they] [die],” and these phony ambitions go on to harm their children. Hunt describes how her mother taught her in purple and gold, but wore wash-grey. Her mother pretended to be special and wealthy even though she was average like anyone else. She lived on a “filthy street” with “broken molding” but “reached for beauty.” Much like her, Willy has a false idea of how important and well-liked he is. He convinces himself that he is a great salesman, when
Both Willy and the mother from “Taught me Purple” by Evelyn Tooley Hunt, have the same unrealistic expectations and false dreams. They fantasize the truth until they can no longer bear to live in reality. They hold the American Dream so high in their minds that “In its lack [they] [die],” and these phony ambitions go on to harm their children. Hunt describes how her mother taught her in purple and gold, but wore wash-grey. Her mother pretended to be special and wealthy even though she was average like anyone else. She lived on a “filthy street” with “broken molding” but “reached for beauty.” Much like her, Willy has a false idea of how important and well-liked he is. He convinces himself that he is a great salesman, when