Faded Dreams
In the play Death of a Salesman Willy Loman who is the salesman, was mainly concerned with the success of his family. He set his goals and expectations for himself and his sons that were so high that they were impossible to reach. Willy was reaching for the American dream. He wanted to live in a great neighborhood, he wanted to have his own business, and he wanted his sons to be successful He wanted the perfect life. Unfortunately people don’t always get what they want. Instead of the American dream Willy got reality. He was sixty-three years old and was not as successful as he had hoped to be. Willy was a failure. He was a failure as a father, a husband and a businessman and all his hopes and dreams had faded as well as his grip on what was reality and what was fantasy. In the beginning of the play Arthur Miller draws attention to the lighting, scenery and landscape of Willy Loman’s house. There “towering angular shapes behind the house, surrounding it on all sides. Only the blue light of the sky falls upon the house…a solid vault of apartment houses are around the small fragile-seeming home”(1458). The first scene focuses on Willy’s feelings about the changes that have taken place in his neighborho
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Approximate Word count = 1122
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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