DEATH OF A SALESMAN aMERICAN DREAM

There is no doubt, that in society, everyone has a role. A man’s role, for instance, is to provide for his family by going to work and bringing home money. The American dream brainwashes society and fools it into thinking it is easy to be successful and happy in life. In the play “Death of a Salesman” by Arthur Miller, Willie Lowman builds himself up to the point where he is the cause of …

…for exploiting and corrupting Willie. Willie continued to lie to himself and convince himself that he could follow the American dream. He was a failure though. The capitalistic system in which Willie believed in killed him in the end. The myth of working hard and good things come applies to Willie. Willie got shunned by Howard after working so hard for so many years and now had no job or anything to show for it.