Over the years a number of plays were written about the American dream. The American Dream is the ideal that every U.S. citizen should have equal opportunity to achieve success and prosperity through hard work, determination, and initiative. In these plays and book that contain the American Dream, many of the characters are driven forward, over the edge of sanity, or driven to an untimely death.
In Fitzgerald's ‘The Great Gatsby’ and Miller’s ‘The Death of a Salesman’ the American Dream plays are role with doubt and illusion. Jay Gatsby devoted his whole life to his dream and as a young man he created this illusion of the man he wanted to be one day. With a little help Jay Gatsby becomes the man the he had dreamt of. Gatsby was then on his …show more content…
Willy’s dream is to be important and well liked. Willy spends his adult life trying to be like the man who had hopes and dreams of becoming a salesman. In Willy’s mind the easiest way of becoming a well liked and important person is to become a salesman. When Willy finally realizes that his dream is dying he tries to push that dream onto his son, Biff.
Even though these two stories seem nothing alike and have pretty different scenarios, there are many similarities that can be found throughout them. For example one similarity that is more noticeable is that both Gatsby and Willy has one friend that they are not even that close to. Willy has Charly even though Willy seems to not like him, Charley sees Willy as a friend. Jay Gatsby ends up having Nick and they barely know each other.
The most important similarity is that their doubts and illusions are so much alike. Willy Loman almost idolizes Biff, and in Willy’s eyes there is nothing Biff can do wrong. Because Willy idolizes Biff so much he wants everyone to adore Biff the way he does. In the same way as Biff is idolized by Willy Daisy is idolized by Gatsby. In Gatsby’s eyes Daisy is perfect. In the eye’s of her admirer she can do nothing
In Fitzgerald's ‘The Great Gatsby’ and Miller’s ‘The Death of a Salesman’ the American Dream plays are role with doubt and illusion. Jay Gatsby devoted his whole life to his dream and as a young man he created this illusion of the man he wanted to be one day. With a little help Jay Gatsby becomes the man the he had dreamt of. Gatsby was then on his …show more content…
Willy’s dream is to be important and well liked. Willy spends his adult life trying to be like the man who had hopes and dreams of becoming a salesman. In Willy’s mind the easiest way of becoming a well liked and important person is to become a salesman. When Willy finally realizes that his dream is dying he tries to push that dream onto his son, Biff.
Even though these two stories seem nothing alike and have pretty different scenarios, there are many similarities that can be found throughout them. For example one similarity that is more noticeable is that both Gatsby and Willy has one friend that they are not even that close to. Willy has Charly even though Willy seems to not like him, Charley sees Willy as a friend. Jay Gatsby ends up having Nick and they barely know each other.
The most important similarity is that their doubts and illusions are so much alike. Willy Loman almost idolizes Biff, and in Willy’s eyes there is nothing Biff can do wrong. Because Willy idolizes Biff so much he wants everyone to adore Biff the way he does. In the same way as Biff is idolized by Willy Daisy is idolized by Gatsby. In Gatsby’s eyes Daisy is perfect. In the eye’s of her admirer she can do nothing