... that they are not. In Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and Miller's Death of a Salesman, Willy Loman and Gatsby are characters dominated by an American dream that destroyed them. Their dreams come from an illusionary past and were also based outside of their own self. Gatsby tried to repeat his past, while Willy ... . Willy outright lies and has hallucinations and visions in his desire to have a past that is fitting according to his American values about wealth. One of his outright lies is directed to his job, where he often claims he was much more successful than the reality. "In 1928, I h...

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... contradict commonplace traditional American values as in this steadfast hope. In fact, through the experiences of characters in The Death of a Salesman, A Streetcar Named Desire, and The Great Gatsby, a steadfast hope ultimately results in an inevitable death. In the first piece, The Death of a Salesman, there is a ubiquitous representation of hope and the resulting success, or rather lack thereof. Willy Loman has several hopes, ... for Jay in order to dissolution him of his futile and persistent hope in Daisy. Sadly, Jay was not enlightened with this idea and his stubborn, hopeful, and ...

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... born in St. Paul, Minnesota (Michael Reynolds 2360). His mother's father was a self made Irish immigrant millionaire, and his father was a salesman who married above his social class and squandered the family fortune (Reynolds 2360). Fitzgerald enlisted in the army and fell for the southern belle, Zelda ... daughter, Scottie, to marry someone who follows a "calculated path stemming from a talent or money- (qtd. in Lehan "Careless People- 71). Fitzgerald felt his lack of money was why Ginevra married someone else (Lehan "Careless People- 71). "[. . .] Daisy Fay Buchannan was named for Hen...

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