The American Dream is a hope of hitting the big time. In the luck that riches and wealth will fall hand in hand. These riches and wealth can mean something totally different from an individual to another. One culture group divided from the north to the south, the east to the west. Starting with Christopher Columbus in his search for the world the new dream and new beginnings. To the modern politicians still searching for that American dream of freedom. Needless to say, it means something different for everyone. In terms of Miss Emily in “A Rose for Emily” By William Faulkner. Along, with the townsfolk in “Autumn beings in Martin's Ferry, Ohio” by James Arlington Wright. Moreover, Willy in “ Death of a Salesman” by Arthur Miller. How has the
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Women that were married and had a job that a man had. The women were considered to me stealing from the men. So the only other thing that women had to look forward to was achieving a high social class status. However, coming from a high social class already Miss Emily was a part of that tradition. She had to keep that status and that obligation to keep the status of her family strong. As if she was a matriarch to the southern women’s American Dream for this small town in Mississippi. After Emily’s father passed away and left her. She needed to carry the legacy of the Grierson family name. Find that one thing she needed and or want was the ability of her have owned dream. To Miss Emily, it found love and be a wife that she needed to be This was a common need from the men of their wives. It was the man's job to bring home the money, be the breadwinner of the family. For Homer to come into Miss Emily’s life and to show her love. Then there was a shift in time and generation the once dream of love and family. …show more content…
Willy a man with a hope of becoming his own boss. Falling into that wealth that he sees all around him, to provide for his family. That hope “And when I saw that, I realized that selling was the greatest career a man could want. ’Cause what could be more satisfying than to be able to go, at the age of eighty-four, into twenty or thirty different cities, and pick up a phone, and be remembered and loved and helped by so many different people?” (Miller) Willy knowing that his hope of the American dreams was not going to happen. This defeat was to much more than Willy could handle. Which in relate lead him down a bad path “ I don’t say he’s a great man. Willy Loman never made a lot of money. His name was never in the paper. He’s not the finest character that ever lived. But he’s a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid. He’s not to be allowed to fall in his grave like an old dog. Attention attention must finally be paid to such a person.” (Miller) . Suicide is a problem, something that stems from depression. The depression that Willy could not provide of his family. That he couldn’t become that successful entrepreneur that he hoped to become. That the pain of defeat and become the turning point. Someone is going to go one of two ways. Down the dark road with no return, or they are going to change and come up with a new plan of
Women that were married and had a job that a man had. The women were considered to me stealing from the men. So the only other thing that women had to look forward to was achieving a high social class status. However, coming from a high social class already Miss Emily was a part of that tradition. She had to keep that status and that obligation to keep the status of her family strong. As if she was a matriarch to the southern women’s American Dream for this small town in Mississippi. After Emily’s father passed away and left her. She needed to carry the legacy of the Grierson family name. Find that one thing she needed and or want was the ability of her have owned dream. To Miss Emily, it found love and be a wife that she needed to be This was a common need from the men of their wives. It was the man's job to bring home the money, be the breadwinner of the family. For Homer to come into Miss Emily’s life and to show her love. Then there was a shift in time and generation the once dream of love and family. …show more content…
Willy a man with a hope of becoming his own boss. Falling into that wealth that he sees all around him, to provide for his family. That hope “And when I saw that, I realized that selling was the greatest career a man could want. ’Cause what could be more satisfying than to be able to go, at the age of eighty-four, into twenty or thirty different cities, and pick up a phone, and be remembered and loved and helped by so many different people?” (Miller) Willy knowing that his hope of the American dreams was not going to happen. This defeat was to much more than Willy could handle. Which in relate lead him down a bad path “ I don’t say he’s a great man. Willy Loman never made a lot of money. His name was never in the paper. He’s not the finest character that ever lived. But he’s a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid. He’s not to be allowed to fall in his grave like an old dog. Attention attention must finally be paid to such a person.” (Miller) . Suicide is a problem, something that stems from depression. The depression that Willy could not provide of his family. That he couldn’t become that successful entrepreneur that he hoped to become. That the pain of defeat and become the turning point. Someone is going to go one of two ways. Down the dark road with no return, or they are going to change and come up with a new plan of