An Analysis of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman and The Price When people accept an ideal to live by it can be a glorious and noble thing unless they become so obsessed wi the the ideal that it becomes a yolk and they are unable to realize their dream.. This is especially true for two characters in Arthur Miller's plays Death of a Salesman and The Price. In these two plays Miller portays two lower-middle class men , Willie Loman and Victor Franz, respectivelly, who each live by an ideal that ultimately is self-defeating. Willie lived to pursue the American dream rather than living the American dream and Victor lived to serve and be decent rather than living a noble and decent life. They pursed their ideal rather than living it and thus they are unable to succeed. Willie Loman, in Death of a Salesman,, has lived his life in pursuit of the American dream. Traditionally the American dream meant oppurtunity and freedom for all, and Willie believed that. However, hard work could!
not earn him everything that he wanted or thoght he deserved. Willy judged himsel and those arround him by theit material accumulation, as is demanded by capitalism and the protestant work ethic. The ethic demands accumulation and work as signs of favor i
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Both men failed because the became so involved in living by impossible standards that they could never reach them and failure has harsh penaltis in both circumstances. That is to say that his inability to please himself and to struggle to achieve his goals hurts his family. As a result they both fail to accomplish what they had intended, hurt the ones they love, and themselves. He has a greater need for that money and deserves it, for all his earlier sacrifices for Walter's sake, but he will not take it. He could not pusue a noble dream by doing something that is based !
in deceit. His desire fior goods makes him want objects that he neither needed nor could afford. It is ironic that he dies for his ideals although they are misconstrued. He struggled to achieve something that he could not; he did not have the talent to be a salesman. Both men have d!
ecent and noble intentions however, they both live to fulfill those intentions rather than living and fulfilling the intentions. While his brother Walter was in school Victor cared for their aging father at a great expense to Victor econimically and emotionally. With all that sacrifice one would assume that Victor's family would be pleased however his sacrifices hurt them greatly. Furtheremore he put his brother through medical school even though Victor had more potential in the field. The consumer oriented society in which Willy lives will not allow him to live the American Dream.
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