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,