Desperate American Dream’ in Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman

Death of a Salesman, produced in 1949, has become a classic of modern American theatre. It is a story of anaverage salesman with a dream of being rich and well-liked. This is a tragic story of a salesman called Willy Loman,whose past and present are mixed up with expressionistic scenes. It casts a cold eye on the ‘American Dream’ andmoral that is compromised to achieve it. Its hero, the dreamer salesman Willy Loman, is a man who struggles to get the‘American Dream’ which is to make sense of his place in the society.His problems stem from his own delusions, the American Dream turning sour, because of his personal flaw.

Keywords:

American Dream , Reality vs Illusion , Absurdity