YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :American Dream in Death of a Salesman and The Great Gatsby
Essays 211 - 240
to be popular. It can be said to be part of the human condition. But, it can also be said, that Willy Loman, the sixty something t...
to him. He merely knows that without his job he is lost, but he doesnt have the insight to look inward for the answers....
play, I think, and maybe that is what does it. We are faced with the spectacle of all that love being lost on someone who can t r...
the span of a day comes face-to-face with the realization that the American Dream has become a nightmare of his own making, that t...
a tragic character as he remembers events from his past and why things went wrong. Through this process, he seems to be losing tou...
about, while assessing the characters he meets. In this respect both narrators must take into consideration the past lives of the ...
so much as for the enjoyment of others, for the pride he could have when looking at what he achieved through the eyes of others. T...
deal of understanding in this particular line. We note that the staging is "smart" which tells us that the staging is perhaps cris...
may very well lie in the study of some of the most earliest of heroes from the texts of Homer and Plato. By far one of the most en...
calls friends. In particular, is his pursuit of Daisy. Why Daisy, one might ask? Simple. She was the symbol of landed wealth, of t...
family that was better off than his own. In order to make something of himself he began to write articles for various magazines. H...
on the world scene. And, we know that the one individual who could perhaps sway him from his innocent and noble ways is Gatsby him...
to gain his own independence despite his fathers quelling influence; however, this is never to be for the thirty-four-year-old ner...
Loman has limited intelligence or at least that seems to be the case; the point is arguable however. The story itself, as origin...
is that so many people believe in ideals like Willys. In the end, what is show is that a man with so much potential ends up losing...
we know Frank would have fired him long ago, or at the very least, not promoted him. In this we see Willy blaming his new boss for...
included intelligence, depth, compassion, and integrity. It was now a dream that focused primarily on material success and the dre...
shirts and strolls her through his kitchen. There, we see Daisys hand trailing along a large work table...the elegant chandeliers ...
importance to his life, telling her, "Youre my foundation and my support" (18). Everything he did was ultimately rooted in love f...
us are perhaps afraid to pursue the thing that would make us the most happy but is likely to also be the most risky. We may fear ...
timeless quality and subject matter. It is also interesting to note that despite the plays relevance to American society, it wa...
dramatic action by the end of the play (cathartic release), and falls into two parts comprising a complication and a d?nouement(El...
finally come to terms with the reality of the situation. Happy, of course, is a chip off the old block, confined into his narrow a...
of how they look at the world. For the two sons this image is different. Biff is the intelligent brother who is often angered a...
the city may appear attractive and it certainly attracted Nick, it is hollow. He expresses this by returning home to the midwest. ...
basis for Nicks disillusionment with the decadence of east coast American society (Fitzgerald 3). Gatsbys pursuit of the American ...
and we are inside Lomans house. We read that as the light changes we are forced to see how this house looks somewhat pathetic in t...
different than those who attend his party and do little more than drink and let loose. With such a setting, as one of the most ...
excuses for that sons pathological misbehavior; he virtually ignores his second son; hes a real bastard to friends, neighbors and ...
and two shabby suitcases" (15). In all honesty, this is all this author states concerning the staging of this play. However, we ca...