Comparing the American Dream in Millers Death of a Salesman and Hansbe

Comparing the Destructive American Dream in Millers Death of a Salesman and Hansberrys A Raisin in the solarise America is a enter of fancyers. From the time of the Spanish conquistadorscoming in search of gold and everlasting youth, there has been a mystique about the land to which Amerigo Vespucci gave his name. To the Puritans who settled its northeast, it was to be the site of their city upon a hill (Winthrop 2). They gave their understructure the name spic-and-span England, to signify their hope for a new beginning. Generations of immigrants followed, each(prenominal) a dreamer bringing his own hopes and aspirations to the green shores. The quest was devoted a name the American Dream and through the ages, it has been as a good deal a symbol of America as the lady in the harbor, a promise of Americas riches for all who dare to dream and strive to fulfill their ambitions. Dreamers apotheosized fellow dreamers like Rockefeller and Carnegie, holding them to be the fi gure of speech from which all could follow. But behind the meretricious dream lies the cold reality. A country built upon survival of the fittest has no sympathy for those who serve as the steppingstones for others success. For every person who reaches the zenith, there are countless others trapped in the valleys of despair by their heedless dash to reach the top. Playwrights Arthur Miller and Lorraine Hansberry put down the failures in their works Death of a Salesman and A Raisin in the Sun. Their primal dreamers, Millers Willy Loman and Hansberrys Walter Lee Younger, like children at a candy shop window, are seduced by that success which can be seen so clearly, yet is so unreachable. Ardent followers of the hype of America, they snitch that, far from being a positive motivator, the Ame... ...n. Ed. Harold Bloom. Modern Critical Interpretations. radical York Chelsea, 1988. 47-58.Miller, Arthur. Death of a Salesman. New York Penguin, 1977. Nemiroff, Robert. Introduc tion. A Raisin in the Sun. By Lorraine Hansberry. New York Vintage, 1988. 5-14. Turner, Darwin T. Visions of Love and Manliness in a portentousening World Dramas of Black Life Since 1953. Black Scholar 25.2 (1995) 2-13. EBSCO. Wake Co. Public Lib. 5 Jan. 2001 <http//www.ebscohost.com.Wilson, Robert N. The Salesman and Society. The author as Social Seer. Chapel Hill U of North Carolina P, 1979. 57-71. Rpt. in Willy Loman. Ed. Harold Bloom. Major Literary Characters. New York Chelsea, 1991. 79-89.Winthrop, John. A Model of Christian Charity. American History Online. 28 Mar. 2001. <http//longman.awl.com/history/primarysource_2_4.htm.