Security In In Cold Blood And Death Of A Salesman

Security and safety are two very extensive factors in modern day society, and without them, the world known today would be greatly altered. America, as a whole, is built to stand tall and provide this sense of protection as it is called the land of the free. This simple phrase means a variety of different ideas to everyone. An American social critic and citizen himself, H. L Mencken, once said, “The average man does not want to be free. He simply wants to be safe.” Articles, situations, movies, and books all demonstrate this distinct moral. Within the novels Gone With the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell, In Cold Blood, written by Truman Capote, the autobiography, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, by Frederick Douglass himself, and Death of a Salesman, by Arthur Miller, characters, scenes, and themes within these stories exemplify …show more content…
This play tells the story of a pressured son in a small family, who is expected to fulfill the requirements of the American dream. As the underlying ideas behind the common, expected dream for him become increasingly obvious and forceful, the characters begin to realize how slowly but surely their family is becoming financially and emotionally unstable. Once the son refuses to become a common business man, as his father had hoped, the father begins to think of a futuristic idea of unsafety within their family. The son sees this idea of unsafety as well, but mostly at the way his father’s restrictions on his future prevent him from doing certain things he would enjoy most thoroughly. It is difficult for the son’s brother and mother to come to terms with the situation, for they realize how difficult it is to ensure safety and comfort with not only a broken home life, but also a financially broke