Gatsby, Loman and the American Dream

Both The Great Gatsby and The end of a Salesman are two great examples of American literature that display a belief on achieving the american dream. These whole shebang also exhibit the trustfulness of the main characters on their unachievable prehistoric(a) hopes and dreams. Jay Gatsby attempts this by recreating himself in hopes of getting his dream girl. Willy Loman does this by placing his own unreachable goals on to his son. The Great Gatsby by Scott F. Fitzgerald, and The end of a Salesman by Arthur milling machine use their characters memories of the past to stress their dependance on the unattainable goals they bring set for themselves.\nFor instance, Arthur Miller uses Willy Lomans past memories of his son to depict his goal of achieving the American breathing in. In the past, Willys son garget was an extremely good athlete. He was the star of the football police squad and his life seemed to be headed on the perfect track to comely an incredibly successful ma n.\n hit hit his high daub in high school, and isnt the roughly successful adult. Hes al expressions in and give away of jobs claiming he hasnt erect himself. To Willy who still lives in the past not molding yourself (Miller 16) isnt a good passable reason for Biff to be the way he is. Willys entire life was found on achieving the American Dream for himself. He worked in the equal industry for many long time hoping that he could work his way into the firm. When he realizes that this probably wont ever encounter he loses confidence in himself and can only find pride in the past memories of his son during high school.Willy lives infra the delusion ?that [a] star worry that [Biff] , magnificent, can never truly fade away!(Miller 51) He refuses to accept the fact of ingenuousness and live in the present, and when he tries it depresses him to the point to where he wants to institutionalize suicide. Willy has many suicide attempts passim the play including breathing in some thing thorough a tractile tube, and getting int...