However, rather than inspiring people to do things differently, this change led to a festering resentment among many people in the lower middle class due to a feeling that they had. In many ways, Willy’s failure to achieve the American Dream is symbolic of the problems with the dream itself: As socioeconomic classes became more established, it became increasingly difficult for people to achieve wealth and success simply by working instead, innovation and/or exceptionally hard work were required. He is simply unable to understand why he has not been successful, which leads him into a significant depression. This version was produced by Stanley Kramer and directed by Laslo Benedek. Although the play premiered in 1949, Miller began writing Death of a Salesman at the age of seventeen when he was working for his fathers company. The fact that Willy is unable to achieve the American Dream despite his lifelong emphasis and concentration on his own likeability causes Willy significant cognitive dissonance. Death of a Salesman was adapted as a film in 1952. Death of a Salesman focuses on two sons who are estranged from their father, paralleling one of Millers other major works, All My Sons, which premiered two years before Death of a Salesman. For example, he shows disdain for Bernard’s intelligence, though it is that intelligence that helps Bernard gain exactly the type of success that eludes Willy throughout the novel. Moreover, Willy has a very interesting idea of what it means to be liked, which has nothing to do with respect. While the traditional American Dream emphasized the importance of hard work and innovation, it morphed sometime in the late 1800s/early 1900s to suggest that all people could attain a middle-class existence in America if they could simply get enough people to like them. Interestingly enough, that version of the American Dream is that a nice, personable, attractive person will find success and material wealth. Willy believes in his version of the American Dream without reservation. The American Dream is the fundamental theme of Death of a Salesman. Themes are the central topics or messages that the author is trying to convey. The hopes and dreams of all four members. Through Willy, the theme of dreams will be shown throughout the entire play more so then any other theme that I will be discussing. In many ways, Willy is every man, as he struggles for something unattainable without every really understanding that it is unattainable. Death of a Salesman is dream-like, and as a result of this theme, it is evident that one of the main characters, Willy Lohman, is inside a dream that is made of life itself. In Death of a Salesman, Miller explores a number of different themes, motifs, and symbols that make the story of Willy Loman accessible to a wide audience.
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