In the book Death of a Salesman Willy is a very confused old man and not only is he old but his sons are old also The same way that he is. Willy is delusional in the sense of his job and in the sense of his life. He is constantly talking about people that is not that are not there and spacing out behind the wheel of his car. This shows how fragile people are really and how common problems in families are. His sons are two very completely different people the one cannot hold down a job to save his life he has been working as a farmer and was fired from that even though he believes that is his job. The other one is a player and is in the pursuit of riches. his name is happy even though he is far from happy. these examples show how far from the American dream this family actually is and what they are to do about it. and Willie's case he becomes very Bipolar in the case of his boys one minute he will be telling how lazy and disrespectful they are the next to you will be praising them for how hard-working and dedicated and focused they are at their job which goes to show you this state that Willy has put himself into. Not all dreams are what we want in life.

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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.