The importance of the American Dream in Arthur Miller's
play Death of a Salesmanis entirely dependent on the meaning that
Willy Loman in particular gives to such a dream. In his eyes, the American Dream is the
acquisition of money and wealth as a result of being well-liked and attractive. Nowhere
does Willy's American Dream include hard-work, nor practicality: Everything is
superficial and without any substance nor backbone
whatsoever.
The significance of the American Dream,
however, lays on the ability to catch it, achieve it, or earn it. It is a social myth
that has propelled politics, literature, and even religion: To get back as much or more
as you put in. To wake up to the day when there will be no more financial worries,
because hard work provides for a settled future. Nowadays with an economy as weak as
ours, the American Dream seems to be in a very high pedestal that we all pray we could
reach. Willy has the same hopes but like Biff says of Willy during the
"Requiem"
he had the wrong
dreams.
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