Death Of A Salesman By Arthur Miller

The American Dream has always had positive connotations of goodness, success, and prosperity. However, in reality the dream may never come to fruition. The American Dream can be regretful. Death of a Salesman is a play about the character Willy, and how the American dream might not be so great. Willy regrets his life decisions, and wishes he had more money and had a better life. He wants his two children to be more successful than he was. Willy’s oldest son Biff wants to work on a farm. After not going to college for football, and not finding a different career to stick with him, he thinks working on a farm will finally be something that makes him happy. Instead of wanting Biff to live a simple life he’s happy with, Willy wants him to be a

Biff says, “I am not a leader of men, Willy, and neither are you. You were never anything but a hard-working drummer who landed in the ash can like all the rest of them,” (Act 2, 98). Willy had developed a false sense that he was successful in the business industry, and had achieved the American Dream he had wanted. However, Biff tells Willy that he isn’t as successful as he thinks, and his American Dream has led him to regretting some of his life decisions. The way Willy perceives himself isn’t what others perceive him to be. When he realizes how others perceive him Willy is disappointed in himself, and feels like a failure. He thought he was an amazing salesman, and thought everyone else felt the same way about him. Instead he is met with regret and disappointment before the end of his life. An article states Willy Loman as, “The dime a dozen drummer betrayed by a bankrupt American dreams,” (Yanofsky). The article describes how Willy wanted his American Dream to be a reality, but it never happened. He was betrayed by the American Dream because he thought he would have more money and a better life, but insteads starts to regret what he has done with his life. After thinking he was something special, Willy understands at the end of the play that he wasn’t, neither was his son. Willy could not accomplish the dream of being known by people and having a lot of money. Instead he feels disappointment for wasting his life and not enjoying the small things, because being special was all that he had cared