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Death Of A Salesman

Death Of A Salesman By Arthur Miller

Miller believes that people have been ulitmately misguided and Millers
play, Death of a Salesman , is a moving destruction of the whole myth. This
statement is true in two characters of the book. In Death of a Salesman the two
characters that show this the most is Willy and Happy. The two literary terms
that Arthur Miller used best to describe it is in Conflict and Characterization.
Willy believes in what he considers the promise of the American Dream—that a
"well liked" and "personally attractive" man in business will receive
the material
comforts offered by modern American life. Sure enough Willy ended up not achieving
the American Dream by he put his mind to the wrong ideas and the things that are
not the best for him.
Happy's American Dream was that he wanted to be someone he is not and would
like to get some attention from his father instead of being ignored. Happy has always
been rejected by Willy, in one of the flashbacks Willy has, Happy says " I'm losing
weight, you notice, Pop?" He desperately craves some attention from Willy;he leaves
Willy alone in the restaurant
at the end as some sort of payback for being ignored most of
his life. Happy can not accept reality, muchlike his father. He works as an assistant to an
assistant, but herepresents himself as someone who is much more importantthan what he
really is. Happy also did not end up achievinghis American Dream due to he also was
putting his mind to the wrong things as well .
Miller believes that people have been ulitmately misguided and Millers
play, Death of a Salesman , is a moving destruction of the whole myth. Which
has been shown and very true in this the play Death of a Salesman. It Was
described in both characters Willy and Happy.