After reading the story Death of a Salesman are recurring themes that out to me throughout the story and that is about the American dream. too many people the American dream is to become rich and not worry about life and have enough money to make everybody happy in your life. throughout the story we see really struggled to do this or to even if paying any sort of amount of riches. This shows how hard the American dream is to acquire for people and if they set their goals high and they might become disappointed with the results that they acquire. Many people including Willy believe that you just get the American dream you don't have to necessarily work for it. Willy soon finds out that he is dead wrong and for the remaining of his life he worked towards that dream but he never quite gets too it.One of the main reasons that I believe that he never quite get to the American dream is because he feels too full of himself and believes that he alone can achieve it through his own sheer will but he doesn't understand that it requires more effort than a lot of people care to get and far few people actually achieve.This is shown by the end of the story when his family is practically falling apart. In the American dream none of that will ever happen and they would live happily ever after but as we now know the American dream is by far hard to achieve and acquire. 
The American Dream is a difficult goal to achieve that most people wont even get to experience. People spend all their lives trying to obtain this idea of the perfect american dream to live free with no worries. By doing so they are wasting away their present time and not fully enjoying themselves.
ReplyDeleteThe American Dream is definitely a huge theme that reoccurs throughout the whole play. Willy tries to achieve it and it ends up backfiring. He never ends up achieving it and his family ends up falling apart.
ReplyDeleteIt's been established that Willy thinks that the American Dream can be obtained if one is well-liked enough. That's impossible though since, like you said, it requires more effort than that. Willy's thinking process ultimately lead him to failure of achieving the dream, the family relationships breaking down, and his own death.
ReplyDeleteThe American Dream is a goal that many, like Willy, never complete. His overconfidence and arrogance has brought him to a point where he can't take the pain knowing he has failed. His arguments with the people around him and suicide attempts show that he was dissatisfied with life. Also his son, Biff, being his pride and joy, not making an attempt to acquire what he thought that he had always wanted hurts him dearly.
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