Symbolism in Death of a Salesman Arthur Miller's award winning play "Death of a Salesman" portrays a sad but realistic view of the Fifties. Miller's play makes us reflect the life of Willy Loman, a salesman who wants only what's best for his children, and his obsession of the American Dream. Willy's obsession corrupts his view of reality, and ultimitly destroys the family. While trying to hide his profound anxiety and self-doubt, he soon becomes aware of his failure, and Miller portrays Willy's
If one were to ask, “define the ‘American Dream’ ”, not one definition can sum up this traditionalistic belief. Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman”, depicts conflicts within the Loman family, while addressing larger affairs regarding American culture, more specifically Willy Loman’s blind view of the American Dream. Miller not only broadcasts the cost of blind belief in the American Dream but places ‘charges’ on America with a false advertisement to its people, that which is constructed around
sense that Willy never would get the chance to truly realize his potential beyond improperly fitting the bill as a salesman. Unfortunately for him, the grueling commercial-sales industry that employed him would also turn out to be the prime adversary of the American dream -- the misuse of the ideology known as capitalism. In the strictest sense of the purpose of Death of a Salesman, it was originally known as The Inside of His Head. Perhaps this was alluding to the fact that Willy Loman frequently