浅析《推销员之死》中的美国梦

American Dreams in Death of a Salesman

Abstract:

With

money

as

the

theme

of

“American

Dream

”

in

Arthur

Miller

’

s

masterpiece

Death

of

a

Salesman

is

fully

reflected.

The

tragedy

death

of

leading

character stands for the broken of

American

Dream.

Willie

’

s twisty character is

the

main reason for his tragedy fate, while his social rules are the primary cause. These

two reasons lead the broken of American Dreams.

Key words:

Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman, American Dreams

After

the

masterpiece

Death

of

a

Salesman

came

out

by

contemporary

author

Arthur Miller, it caused a big sensation among American playdom. Arthur Miller was

praised as a social philosophical dramatist.

His art achievement reached peakedness

by his masterpiece Death of a Salesman. Willy Loman who was a salesman believed

American Dreams with no doubt thought only he worked hard and kind to people then

he could get into the upper class.

In this way, he could become rich and respect by

people. Willy

’

s sons, Buf and Habbie, were controlled by American Dreams like their

father.

But

unfortunately,

they

became

victims

of

it.

American

Dreams

is

a

kind

of

fairy tale in contemporary American society.

American Dreams in American literature

Every

country

and

ethnic

literature

with

unique

tradition

has

its

own

emotion.

For American literature, this kind of emotion is the

“American

Dreams

”

. Throughout

the American literature of the 20th century, we can find a forever theme; this is the

Dreams

of

American

way

of

life

and

national

spirit

is

the

equality,

freedom,

tolerance,

enterprising and idealistic belief of success, is the everyone has equal opportunity to

succeed the hope and the possibility of miracles optimistic self- confidence. It is this

Dreams

as

it

were,

embodied

the

American

spirit,

embodies

the

American

traditional

value

concept.

The

immersion

in

the

American

psyche

of

the

Dreams

complex

originated

from

immigration,

Wild

West.

Early

European

settlers,

who

arrived

in

America

with

great

vision

and

imagination

to

develop

the

new

world,

they

overcome

the

bad

natural

environment,

conquered

the

resistance of the native Indians, the establishment of a happy home in the new world.

In

this

vision,

fantasy,

and

gave

birth

to

the

embryo

of

the

Dreams

of

success. Religious propaganda tell people to success is a industry city people's gift of

god,

and

secular

literature

is

filled

with

rags

to

the

millionaire's

dream

of

success. Later in the process of

adventurers overnight become wealthy upstart, is the

this

has

stimulated

the

Dreams

the

growth

of

the

uniquely

American

monsters. Americans are generally thought that as long as their hard work hard work