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A 4 page paper which examines how the play reveals the American Dream to be an illusion and also considers the significance of where and when the play takes place in terms of conveying its message. No additional sources are used.
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into the American literary stratosphere. It continues to be one of the most important plays of our time and has been performed practically everywhere, including Communist China. Arthur
Millers twentieth-century drama is, perhaps, the greatest American tragedy of all time, and has earned its place alongside the tragedies of Sophocles and William Shakespeare. Taking a page from
Aristotles poetics, Miller transformed an Everyman named Willy Loman into a tragic hero. What makes him tragic? Willy Loman believes that the American Dream of wealth and business
success will guarantee him respectability and lasting happiness for his family - wife Linda and sons Biff and Happy. It is the way Death of a Salesman presents its
theme of the American Dream as an illusion, as seen through the eyes of its neer well to do protagonist and its effective use of setting that cement the foundation
of what is now heralded in college textbooks as the great American drama. Death of a Salesman exposes the American Dream to
be nothing more than a sham. As long as sixty-something traveling salesman Willy Loman believes that the American Dream is his for the taking, he can carry on -
he can endure the countless humiliations of having his territory dwindle to a small region in New England. One of these days, he tells himself, he will no longer
be "low-man" on the socioeconomic totem pole. He will be somebody! Willy will not admit his best days are behind him or that his ineffectual sons, Biff and
Happy, who are already in their thirties with no promising future prospects have fallen short of expectations. Willys mind is failing, but he ignores the writing on the wall,
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