Arthur Miller s Death Of A Salesman - 1144 Words

Arthur Miller: Death of a Salesman Life for many in America are missing the same elements that â€Å"Death of a Salesman† exposed. Those element are love and direction. Many people face these struggles at some point in their life, but don’t know what to do to progress. Arthur Miller devised a style whereby he could show how your past can continuously impact on your future. Each character highlights the powerlessness of a dream to give meaning and control to human life. I disagree with some of the critics that say this play was mainly about the American dream and being successful. Without giving first parental love, establishing guidance and truth in the early stages of a child’s life, they are bound to have struggles with†¦show more content†¦He can’t enter the home with a loving greeting, because it’s not part of his personality. Love is not just being affectionate, it is revealed through the actions of an individual that reflects a heart of peace and truth. They have two sons that have been see-sawing with factious careers, which conveys an ambivalence in their character. Now, they have moved back home with the salesman, their father and mother because of a lack of direction and spiritual truth, reflecting some despair. The storyline gives all indication that there was no real family devotion between the father and both his sons. It seems that whatever family ties they might have had as children, it had no lasting effect on them because of the see-sawing careers and poor decisions they had made in their lives. The father and sons are both striving to find the missing purpose in their life to fulfill dreams and connect with one another. The older son (Biff) have been living in a fog all of life seeking for approval from his father. The younger son, was always in the shadows of the older son and never expressed his lack of attention from their father. The mother depicts another type of an untruthful person in this play. She pretends that she’s happy with her marriage and their family life, when in essence she is coping to survive. It appears that as the wife and