Comparing The American Dream In Death Of A Salesman And Fences

The Search for the American Dream The American Dream is different for all people, and it provides different opportunities for different races. But even with all the freedom the American Dream gives, for some people it is an eternal struggle to survive underneath it. Characters from Death of a Salesman and Fences outline the struggles between both of the races. Both families live parallel to each other and try their hardest to pull through underneath the boot of the American Dream. Firstly, the fathers of the Loman and Maxon family they are incredibly similar. Both man seem to have their families falling apart and this is because of them with their unhappiness and unsuccessfulness. Troy Maxon was unsuccessful with the fact that he couldn't play pro-baseball because of racial discrimination, and when his son wanted to play football in college he had an outburst and ruined his son’s chances of getting into college for his own needs without even letting his son have a …show more content…
All of the sons are unsuccessful and do not follow their father's idea of the American Dream. This only causes more mess in the already messed up family. Biff does not go to college and Cory cannot go to college because of his father, and Happy seems to be following in Biff’s footsteps. Biff has this dream of living on a ranch and his father, willy just doesn't approve of it. Willy would much rather he so something more similar to him. Cory really wants to go to college to play football and he is really good at it too. But his dream was shattered by his father when his father refused to let him go to college to play football. Troy also had his dream shattered too but it was because of racial profiling. "I'm talking about if you could play ball then they ought to have let you play. Don't care what color you were." (1.1.81) Troy had his dreams crushed by racism and he is afraid that the same thing will happen for his