The American Dream Death Of A Salesman Essay
Death of a Salesman essay
This essay explains the relevance and importance of dreams in the play; “Death of a Salesman”.
There are three different types of dreams that each are very important in this play, these are; hopes and ambitions, daydreams and fantasies and the American dream. The play is based on Willy Loman who tries to achieve the American dream, but never accomplishes it, which distorts his reality, turning it into false fantasies.
The American dream is based on being rich, being popular and successful and having the best quality of everything. It is everyone’s dream to live this life, but it is not possible for everyone. Willy Loman has this same dream, but he cannot achieve it. Willy is an unsuccessful salesman, who looks up to his brother Ben because he is rich and successful. Willy is married to Linda, and they have two sons; Biff and …show more content…
They both thought that the key to success was appearance and popularity. Willy’s interpretation of the American dream affects Happy more than it affects Biff. “I’m losing weight, you notice, pop?” Indication that Happy is influenced by his father. Biff however does not have the same hopes and ambitions, once he grows up he wants to have his own farm, and do manual labour. Willy completely disagrees with Biff, and does not want him working on a farm, since it does not suite his own ambitions. “How can he find himself on a farm” This tells us that Willy only believes that the business world can make a man successful, and that money is the most important thing. At the end of the play after Willy’s death, Biff says; “He had the wrong dreams. All, all, wrong”. This means that Biff finally realizes that he was not the one who had the wrong hopes and ambitions, but that his father was the one with the wrong ambitions and hopes. This indicates that Biff is actually the one that knows what type of work the Loman family should be
This essay explains the relevance and importance of dreams in the play; “Death of a Salesman”.
There are three different types of dreams that each are very important in this play, these are; hopes and ambitions, daydreams and fantasies and the American dream. The play is based on Willy Loman who tries to achieve the American dream, but never accomplishes it, which distorts his reality, turning it into false fantasies.
The American dream is based on being rich, being popular and successful and having the best quality of everything. It is everyone’s dream to live this life, but it is not possible for everyone. Willy Loman has this same dream, but he cannot achieve it. Willy is an unsuccessful salesman, who looks up to his brother Ben because he is rich and successful. Willy is married to Linda, and they have two sons; Biff and …show more content…
They both thought that the key to success was appearance and popularity. Willy’s interpretation of the American dream affects Happy more than it affects Biff. “I’m losing weight, you notice, pop?” Indication that Happy is influenced by his father. Biff however does not have the same hopes and ambitions, once he grows up he wants to have his own farm, and do manual labour. Willy completely disagrees with Biff, and does not want him working on a farm, since it does not suite his own ambitions. “How can he find himself on a farm” This tells us that Willy only believes that the business world can make a man successful, and that money is the most important thing. At the end of the play after Willy’s death, Biff says; “He had the wrong dreams. All, all, wrong”. This means that Biff finally realizes that he was not the one who had the wrong hopes and ambitions, but that his father was the one with the wrong ambitions and hopes. This indicates that Biff is actually the one that knows what type of work the Loman family should be