Glass Menagerie and D.O.S
Dreams and aspirations help to keep alive, a sense of hope, something to live for. Yet if one does not make their dreams flexible they may fall short and thereby feel their life is unfulfilled. Both Tom Wingfield and Willy Loman in The Glass Menagerie and Death of a Salesman, respectively, live every day with a hope that soon they will be able to achieve these goals that they have set forth for themselves. Yet due to obstinacy of Willy's dream it has become impalpable, while Tom has the ability to realize that a man can change his reveries based upon his current conditions. The American Dream is a fabrication in which a man finds happiness with a house, a successful job, a nice car and a perfect family consisting of a wife and 2.5 children. Willy has geared his ambitions towards this dream. He can not accept the fact that he is just another salesman trying to convince his buyers of why his product is important. Willy feels that the only way to succeed in the business world is to be "well-liked," yet he can not even do that. He creates illusions of his prosperity in order to cater to his unobtainable dream. Willy convinces himself and his sons when he says, "Be liked and you will never want. You take me, for instance. I
A large portion of Willy's illusion has apparently, even to Willy, stripped from him. ' Willy- 'I don't want your goddam job!" By denying himself of his job, Willy is in fact denying himself of another chance at his dream. " Unfortunately Willy's dreams remain rigid and he bends reality in order to fit them. He has no boundaries for what may become of him but he does know, unlike Willy, that his current situation is unhealthy for him. Tom escapes from reality in other, more mentally secure, ways. He is a young man and his aspirations are nothing more than to be "a lover, a hunter, a fighter," yet "none of (these) instincts are given much play at the warehouse (in which he works). " Tom feels suffocated in his dwellings with a crippled sister and a pestering mother that he provides for. " Willy Loman can not comprehend that not all dreams come to be and that if one sets their bar too high, they may have to lower it in order to be content in the future. He knows that he is tired of what he is doing and so he moves on. One must realize that it is an American "Dream" not a reality. He could possibly work and rebuild his life and maybe one day open a business that is "bigger than Uncle Charley('s). ' Charley- 'Without pay? What kind of job is a job without pay.
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