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 …showed first 75 words of 491 total…

…showed last 75 words of 491 total…and the fact that he lives the quest and not the dream was a tragedy. Willy have decent and noble dreams, however, he lives in search for that dream instead of achieving it. He fails to accomplish his plans. He hurts his loved ones, and he hurts himself. He does not achieve to become liked and well-known, and being unlike and unpopular will not allow a person to have everything they want according to him.