Final Post:Motif- The American Dream

All throughout the play, Willy wants one thing for his sons, The American Dream.  He wants his sons to be well-liked men who sell well enough to make a comfortable living. Of course, he feels he isn't living the American dream, which is part of the reason he fights with his sons so much. He wants them to have a better life, even though neither of them want to be salesmen. Since Willy feels he failed at the most important thing, he goes pretty crazy. He mostly has flashbacks of when the family was younger and full of promise. Now, however, his boys show no promise. It didn't help that the meeting with Oliver was a failure. His basically left Willy with no hope, so he tried killing himself with the gas from the heater, but when Biff took the rubber pipe, he had no other methods. Since he didn't have an outlet for his anger, it was a tedious task to try and communicate with him. After a fight with Biff that actually ended well, he thought he heard voices all around him, leading to his death.