A Comparison of the American Dream in Death of a Salesman and A Raisin

The Value of a Dream in demise of a Salesman and A Raisin in the Sun How does one value a dream? This question arises while reading both Arthur Millers destruction of a Salesman and Lorraine Hansberrys A Raisin in the Sun. Although the two novels are very different, the stories and characters share many another(prenominal) likenesses. Death of a Salesman concerns a familys difficulty in dealing with unrealized dreams. A Raisin in the Sun focuses on a familys agitate to agree on a common dream. In each of these stories, in that respect are conflicts between the dreams that each character is struggling to attain. In Death of a Salesman, Happy and Biff are uncertain of where they are in life, and only reach out for the simple, already-tangible things at hand. Biff I dont know- what Im alleged(a) to want, and Happy I dont know what the hell Im working for, essence that they bothh feel they havnt progressed. All they want to do is work with their hands, with their shirts off and their backs to the sun. uncomplete Biff nor Happy have struggled to get to where they feel secure, otherwise they would not be admitting such things. And both have also dismissed the impartiality Biff saying Never mind. secure dont llay it all to me and Happy saying, Just dont lay it all at me feet. Happy also wants to believe that everything is first-rate Happy is fine, so long as he can pay back himself believe that everyone around him is fine. Towards the end of the story, when Biff accuses everyone of lying, Happy exclaims, We always told the impartiality but in the beginning, he admitted to Biff, See, Biff, everybody around me is so false that Im forever lowering my ideals. Willy Loman wants his dreams so badly that, in his ... ...o survive. The Youngers never left the family line the house was the only place of action. It was the pillar, even though it wasnt a nifty one. They made it the pillar by their pride and faith. Willy Loman died with somewhat of a fin ger of honor and dignity. He knew he would pack his family finally and truly proud, and, or so importantly, he knew that Biff loved him, and he always had. There is no such thing as a wasted life, so long as there are dreams to cloud up reality and, possibly, make them possible. Works Consulted Bloom, Harold. Twientieth-Century American publications. current York Chelsea House Publishers, 1986. Draper, James P. Black Literature Criticisms. Detroit Gale Research Incorporated, 1992. Hansberry, Lorraine. A Raisin in the Sun. New York Signet, 1988. Miller, Arthur. Death of a Salesman. New York Viking, 1995.