Willy American Dream
We all have a vision of America, more most this vision includes rolling plains of grass and mountainous forests, however for most Americans this is not what we see every day. Our lives are mostly have up of city or suburban streets and endless highways. In Death of a Salesman, Willy, grew up and built his house out in the open grasses, however his dream of America was boxed in by the city. However some think that Willy’s dream was not crushed by the city, but that his dreams were mistaken from the start, and that Willy was expecting too much from America.
Willy’s ideal dream of an American life is to have a home to raise his boys where the sun is bright and the air is clean. Throughout the play Willy comes back to the subject of how he cannot …show more content…
The face of the earth has not been paved over. However the money has moved to the areas where there are more radio antennas than trees. One can still live out in the open fields of America, and work to grow their own food, but it is not easy. Willy saw only the easy money and not the life that came with it. He wanted the free life, but he thought he could get away with not needing to do the hard work. Willy tried to make his dream work, and for many years he succeeded, but the end was always in sight. During one of Willy’s flashbacks we see what his life once was, there are trees and gardens growing right outside his house, and hills of grass just over the fence, as the boys play ball in the yard. And his dreams could have still been possible had he only moved further away from the city, but Willy must have known that his idea of an American life, the one that he grew up with, was dieing. And when it died it would be replaced with the dream of finding one’s riches in the heart of a concrete jungle. So willy knew that to make the best life for his sons he had to let his dream die so that they could start on their dreams for making it rich in the city. This explains the anger that Willy feels when Biff leaves the city to work on a farm, because Willy have given up that idea to let Biff live in the city, Willy is jealous of the life that Biff is starting, but all the same time he knows that it
Willy’s ideal dream of an American life is to have a home to raise his boys where the sun is bright and the air is clean. Throughout the play Willy comes back to the subject of how he cannot …show more content…
The face of the earth has not been paved over. However the money has moved to the areas where there are more radio antennas than trees. One can still live out in the open fields of America, and work to grow their own food, but it is not easy. Willy saw only the easy money and not the life that came with it. He wanted the free life, but he thought he could get away with not needing to do the hard work. Willy tried to make his dream work, and for many years he succeeded, but the end was always in sight. During one of Willy’s flashbacks we see what his life once was, there are trees and gardens growing right outside his house, and hills of grass just over the fence, as the boys play ball in the yard. And his dreams could have still been possible had he only moved further away from the city, but Willy must have known that his idea of an American life, the one that he grew up with, was dieing. And when it died it would be replaced with the dream of finding one’s riches in the heart of a concrete jungle. So willy knew that to make the best life for his sons he had to let his dream die so that they could start on their dreams for making it rich in the city. This explains the anger that Willy feels when Biff leaves the city to work on a farm, because Willy have given up that idea to let Biff live in the city, Willy is jealous of the life that Biff is starting, but all the same time he knows that it