Death Of A Salesman American Dream Essay

The Misinterpretation of a Dream that Ended in a Tragically End. The pursuit of the American dream has been one of the fundamental motifs of the immigration to the United States. However, in several occasions this American Dream persists to remain as an abstract goal or idea and even frustration has been one of the consequences people can experience when they cannot reach this goal. In 1949, Arthur Miller published “The Death of a Salesman” one of his principal publications and he chose the American Dream as the main theme of this play. Miller exposes the life of an old man whose life can be summarized as the continued research of the American Dream, and also presents the consequences and the tragically end of his inquiry. This play has been continuously analyzed and criticized for the approach that he performs, however he has successfully pointed out the bad side that comes along with the American Dream. For Willy Loman, the main character of the play, the American Dream is a synonym of wealth, security and status and little by little …show more content…
Willy is a salesman and he uses to be constantly traveling to different cities and during his last years he has not been very successful in his job. Linda is her lovely wife and she supports him in any possible and imaginable way. Their sons are already in their thirties and have the same luck as their father in the business world. During the development of the play, the relationships of each member of the family are revealed and the result is a complete dysfunctional family. The reader will find a man who treats his wife with cruelty and disrespect. A son that has been following his steps of cheating and lying towards an illusionary life, and another son that is disappointed of his father and is homeless and jobless. The principal reason for this dysfunctionality is the tireless quest of Willy’s erroneous American