People prefer to have an ideal to guide their lives, but sometimes an obsession with their ideal may take place. Soon the ideal and the dream will begin to fade. This is especially true for a character in Arthur Miller's play Death of a Salesman. In this play Miller portrays a lower-middle class man, Willie Loman, who lives by an ideal that eventually is self-defeating. Willie lives his life pursuing the American Dream instead of living it.
Traditionally the American Dream means opportunity and freedom, and Willie believes that. He is searching for that dream. Even with all his hard work and sacrifices, however, he still can not earn everything he wants or all the things he thinks he deserves. Willy judges each person by their
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