Family circumstances are always different, but the american dream is always the same. Most families are two parent and two children households, maybe three, but that is it. In Death of a Salesman, the Loman family fits the american dream model precisely. The Maxson family, in Fences, fits the model in the beginning, but in their own way. Both of these families have the two parent and two children model households under different circumstances. The Loman and Maxson families go through trials with each other and the outside world. Troy Maxson being a black man and Willy Loman, a white man, both face the same trails as a man. They have to deal with their marriage and the relationship with their children. In many ways than one these two men are the same.
Willy and Linda Loman’s relationship is odd. Linda tries to be the protector of Willy’s emotions and dreams. She has Willy’s back in a way like no other person does. She let’s him live and dream freely. Willy does not treat Linda
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Linda is so wrapped up and making sure that he is happy that she thinks he can do no wrong. Willy’s affair is not seen as a wrongdoing, but it is seen as an get away for him. It is a portrayed as a dream or hallucination to the audience. In that way it gives off a feeling of sympathy for him, because of his illness. Troy Maxson affair is totally wrong in everyone else’s eyes, however, in Troy’s eye it is a get away. Rose show a feeling of hurt and betrayal when she finds out about Troy’s infidelity. She says, “I took all my feelings, my wants and needs, my dreams...and I buried them inside you. I planted a seed and waited and prayed over it”, meaning she gave him everything she had and he just threw it away. The hardest part was for her to find out that she had another child on the way. This was the break in their American Dream household model and the start of a new grudge with Troy’s son