... hard and believe in yourself the result will be wealth, power and happiness. The 'dreamers' want to be independent and work for themselves. "Death of A Salesman", is about the American Dream and one middle-aged man's failure of it. He is a salesman, who wants to live the dream. Willy Loman has worked for Howard Wagner and his father's firm for thirty-four years. Willy travels ... . He values being well liked and sees little point in being honest. In fact, he is another failure of the American dream; he thinks he is well liked when in reality he is not, the watchman on the building site, ...

• Word Count: 1542
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

... hard and believe in yourself the result will be wealth, power and happiness. The 'dreamers' want to be independent and work for themselves. "Death of A Salesman", is about the American Dream and one middle-aged man's failure of it. He is a salesman, who wants to live the dream. Willy Loman has worked for Howard Wagner and his father's firm for thirty-four years. Willy travels ... . He values being well liked and sees little point in being honest. In fact, he is another failure of the American dream; he thinks he is well liked when in reality he is not, the watchman on the building site, ...

• Word Count: 1574
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Willy as Tragic Hero in Death of a Salesman Death of a Salesman is the story of Willy Loman, a middle-class salesman who, in the course of a single day, comes to realise that the American Dream, which he has pursued for 40 years, has failed him. Willy's relentless, but naive pursuit of success has not only affected his sense of his own worth but has dominated the lives of his wife Linda and his sons ... his sons, Biff and Happy. He imbues his sons with the spirit of competition. When Biff can not keep up with the keen competition in the industrialised impersonal American work force, he goes t...

• Word Count: 1421
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School