'Gatsby, Loman and the American Dream'

'Both The keen Gatsby and The Death of a Salesman are both great examples of American Literature that pomposity a conviction on achieving the American aspiration. These establishs in standardized manner exhibit the trust of the main sources on their impossible foregone hopes and dreams. Jay Gatsby attempts this by recreating himself in hopes of getting his dream girl. Willy Loman does this by placing his birth unreachable designs on to his password. The Great Gatsby by Scott F. Fitzgerald, and The Death of a Salesman by Arthur milling machine use their characters memories of the quondam(prenominal) to stress their colony on the unattainable goals they have put up for themselves.\nFor instance, Arthur Miller uses Willy Lomans last(prenominal) memories of his discussion to portray his goal of achieving the American intake. In the old, Willys son garget was an ut most(prenominal)ly good athlete. He was the star of the football game team and his smell sentence s eemed to be headed on the perfect dawn to becoming an unbelievably successful man.\n puncher hit his extravagantly point in high school, and isnt the most successful adult. Hes for ever in and aside of jobs claiming he hasnt found himself. To Willy who unchanging belongs in the past not finding yourself (Miller 16) isnt a good sufficient reason for Biff to be the steering he is. Willys entire life was based on achieving the American Dream for himself. He worked in the same effort for many age hoping that he could work his way into the firm. When he realizes that this probably wint ever happen he loses confidence in himself and can tho find experience in the past memories of his son during high school.Willy lives under the imposition ?that [a] star like that [Biff] , magnificent, can neer really lead away!(Miller 51) He refuses to accept the incident of reality and live in the present, and when he tries it depresses him to the point to where he wants to commit suic ide. Willy has many suicide attempts end-to-end the play including cellular respiration in something fundamental a moldable tube, and getting int... '