How does Miller use the father-son relationships to question the values of 1940's America? ("Death of a Salesman" by Arthur Miller)
Date Submitted: 09/10/2006 04:19:17
Category: / Literature / North American
Length: 9 pages (2598 words)
Category: / Literature / North American
Length: 9 pages (2598 words)
In America in the 1940's, material success was preferable to anything else. Some people in 'the land of opportunities,' were experiencing immense prosperity and unprecedented wealth as social processes were occurring. It was the time when the war between capitalism and communism was occurring i.e. The Cold War, hence the era of McCarthy and un-Americanism. Here was too the time where the majority of citizens in the USA believed in the American Dream, …
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…also those around him too. The extent to which Willy has an effect on his children is very large; Biff and Happy can almost be regarded as expressions of Willy's own mind - one represents a vaguely perceived spiritual need, and the other a more sexual and material drive. This to conclude all relates to how the American society lead its people to believe in and act like, if not directly then as a consequence.
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