Willy emphasized the painting as the American dream, Willy didn’t bother to look closer at the details of the painting. By saying that Willy points out his belief of being well liked is the most important thing in order to succeed in life. By saying “He’s liked, but he’s not–-well liked” (18). He’s liked, but he’s not–-well liked” (18). Willy said “Bigger than Uncle Charley! Because Charley is not-liked. When Happy asked, “Like Uncle Charley, heh?” (18). Willy emphasis his believe of being well-liked is the most important trait of successes by remembering how he told to Biff and Happy that someday he will open his own business.
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Willy’s dream doesn’t involve passion to succeed along with hard work and personal sacrifice as much as it involves being popular and liked. This is when Willy decides that, “selling was the greatest career a man could want” (81). Willy remembers how many people attend Singleman’s funeral. In conversation with Howard, Willy glorifies the man as “remembered and loved and helped by so many different people” (81). Willy builds his life on an 84-year-old man named Dave Singleman, a well-known salesman who made millions “without ever living his room” (81). Willy builds his own life on a delusional fantasy of the American dream.
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Willy strongly believes that the only thing you need to succeed in life is being well liked by others. In Arthur Miller’s play, Death of a Salesman, parent’s deluded definition of the American dream can affect their relationships with their children and can affect their children’s choices in adulthood. Never have succeeded in his sellings, Willy is unable to face the truth, expects his sons to do great things and fulfill his own – dreams the ones he couldn’t fulfill himself. Willy believes that all you need to live the American dream is wealth which comes from being well-liked by others. Willy Loman is a 63-year-old salesman, father, and husband.