"The key to happiness is having dreams. The key to success is making your dreams come true" Anonymous

The concept of the American Dream started to arise during the early nineteenth century, as hundreds of people immigrated to the United States of America in search for a better life. Originally, the American Dreams is the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Though these three goals sound very practical and logic in theory, in reality, problems occur as people start to interpret this dream each according to his personal wishes. In his play "Death of a Salesman," Arthur Miller criticizes the concept of the American Dream in regard to the failure it causes the life of the Lomans' family to become. The problem with the American Dream, I believe, lies not within the dream itself, but within the means people pursue to attain this dream.

The tragic hero of Arthur Miller's play, Willy Loman, is a sixty-three year old salesman, who dedicates his life to the American Dream. Loman wastes his whole life trying to become happy, successful and free. His role model is a successful, well-liked sales

Loman's life revolves around one main principle, namely happiness. For him, happiness can only be attained through money and this is the proof for success. The only means to accomplish success is by being well-liked. We can see that in most of Willy's conversations with his son Biff, who was a popular athletic at high school. Willy Loman is puzzled by the fact that Biff is well-liked and yet, not successful. He believes that Biff has all the requirements need to become successful, represented in being well-liked. Clearly, this shows us that Arthur Miller dislikes the way people perceived the American Dream and tried to accomplish it. Miller criticizes the fact that people like Willy Loman made out of the American Dream a religion and never doubted that it could be just an illusion. Therefore, he wastes his life trying to accomplish this dream.

In his play "Death of a Salesman," Arthur Miller chooses Willy Loman as a symbol for all the believers of the American Dream. Willy Loman spends his life and dies in attempt to realize this dream, yet fails to accomplish happiness or success. This was the normal scenario for most of those who truly believed in the American Dream. People immigrated to the United States of America with high expectations for a better life offered to them in America. They had a certain picture drawn in their minds of how this life is going to be. Most of them dreamt of happiness in the form of wealth, exactly like our hero Willy Loman did. People have worked their lives off but still failed and only few have succeeded to attain this dream. The failure of Willy Loman is just one of a million others that existed in the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century. Through Loman's life, Miller criticizes the American Dream and what it led many people to become.

Moreover, in his play Miller shows how much he dislikes the importance of money for the believers of the American Dream. According to Willy Loman, money is the measure for success and the only means for happiness. Therefore, the significance of the accumulation of money is very much exaggerated in the life of Willy Loman who is just a symbol for all those who believe in the American Dream. They simply neglect the fact that happiness can come through means other than money. Concerning this point I would like to say that there is no doubt that money is an important factor in life. Several problems arise due to the s

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