What is the American Dream? Well, if you are an American and if you have a family, a house and a car, a decent job with a good salary, and if you consider yourself to be surrounded by people who respect you for who you are, you can be said to have reached the American Dream. Within the play Death of a salesman, Willy Loman destroyed himself and his family trying to achieve a fictitious …showed first 75 words of 530 total…

…showed last 75 words of 530 total…to remain a salesman. He never made it to the top as he planned or ever got his son to trust him. His death was basically based on the ways of the world and his wrongdoing. But what human being is perfect? Some get dealt good cards others may not. What Willy should have done was follow his heart and not his needs, and his life may not have ended as sadly as it did.