Similarities Between Death Of A Salesman And The Great Gatsby

Mary E Pearson states, “ It can take years to mold a dream. It takes only a fraction of a second for it to be shattered”. As a matter of fact, The American Dream is the main goal that people strive for but sometimes that dream gets shattered. As read in the novels by F. Scott Fitzgerald the “Great Gatsby” and Arthur Miller “Death of a Salesman” the main characters of both of the novels Willy Loman and Jay Gatsby both had different dreams that they wanted to accomplish but they both had things standing in their way that would soon lead their dreams to be shattered. In the Great Gatsby, the main character Jay Gatsby has changed everything about him just so he can make it seem like he is in the same status as his longtime lover Daisy Buchanan but that slowly takes a dark turn.

Willy is the type of father that expects so much from his youngest son Biff, but all of those expectations soon come to an end because Biff soon realizes that his life has been filled with nothing but expectations that his father has expected him to excel on. In both of the novels The Great Gatsby and Death of a Salesman, they both have such high hopes for how they believe their life is going to turn out once their dream is accomplished. What they don't realize is that they are living in this allusion of how they “think” that their life is going, but the reality is that they are going nowhere by living in the allusion that will not get them anywhere. However, in both of the novels, Willy and Gatsby both have a vision of how their American dream is supposed to be but those dreams were very short-lived because they both are constantly living in an allusion and always referring to the back to the