Success: Accomplishing Your Dream Completing the "American Dream" is a controversial issue. The American Dream can be defined as having a nice car, maybe two or three of them, having a beautiful, healthy family, making an impact on the world, or even just having extra spending money when the bills are paid. In the play "Death Of A Salesman," by Arthur Miller, the "American Dream" deals with prosperity, status, and being immortalized.Willy Loman, a hard worker aged to his sixties never accomplished this goal. He always talked the talked, but never achieved to walk the walk. Willy Loman would always talk about who he's met and how he has always well known and liked, but truthfully he never was. "Willy: He's liked, but not-well likedI got on the road and I went north to Providence. Met the Mayor. (ACT I, lines 232, 234)Willy: And they know me, boys, they know me up and down New England. The finest people. And when I bring you fellas up, there'll be open sesame for all of us, 'cause one thing, boys: I have friends. I can park my car in any street in New England, and the cops protect it like their own(ACT I, line 242)." Willy can talk of meeting wonderful and powerful men, but his limits stretch to the Mayor of Providence. Willy Loman's dreams seem to outlive Willy. Willy dreamed his life out, even to his death. He dreamed of dying the death of a salesman. All the powerful men he knew would attend his funeral. Cars would line up for miles and everybody would mourn his death. He would be greatly missed. Fact is Willy Loman's funeral had an audience of very few people. "Charley: It was a very nice funeral. Linda: But where are all the people he knew? (REQUIEM, lines 7-8)." Willy's funeral was tiny as well as his talk. Willy's dreams were shallow and unlived even until his death.Success was part of Willy Loman's dream. Willy dreams of both he and his sons being successful. "Willy: Bernard is not well liked, is he? Bif...
