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A 7 page paper which discusses the play "Death of a Salesman" and the recent
film "American Beauty" and illustrates how they help to demonstrate that the perfect
American family is only a myth, never achieved. Bibliography lists 16 sources.
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7 pages (~225 words per page)
File: JR7_RAmythfam.doc
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has become shorthand for the bland American exteriors that conceal unimaginable strangeness" (Romney 46). Introduction There is no such thing as the perfect American family. We all strive, somehow,
to achieve that dream, imagining that if we try hard enough we can be that American family that we have always seen in television shows, and in literature and other
forms of media. In fact, it often seems to us that if we dont have the perfect American family we, or someone, must be doing something wrong, for we feel
the possibility of such a family is out there. But, in all honesty there is no such thing as the perfect American family. No family is perfect, and disagreements and
turmoil will always be a part of families. Two very good examples of families which are not perfect, and perhaps more adequately represent American families than say Leave it
to Beaver type families, are the families represented in "Death of a Salesman" and "American Beauty." Both of these stories present us with families that appear to be incredibly dysfunctional,
but may be closer to our families than the ever dreamed of perfect American family. Death of a Salesman In this particular play, if we only look at the
man, Willy Loman, and examine him from his perspective, concerning his hopes and desires for himself and his children, we will not see the common view of a ripped up
and useless man. Here is a man who has worked hard all his life to provide for his family. That is the ideal in a perfect family, at least the
perfect family of the 1940s, if not today in many ways, for as Klinghoffer states, even today we "have the intuition that the soul of a man disposes him to
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