Arthur Miller is a highly proclaimed author who believes that success is based on an opinion rather than a set of rules to live by. In his play, Death of a Salesman, Miller presents a realistic approach to the ideas behind the American Dream. Death of a Salesman has three basic themes supported by the motifs. In addition to these three themes and motifs there is a central idea running through the play. As the …showed first 75 words of 1557 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1557 total…they will fail to see what is really important. Willy has lost at trying to live the American Dream and the play can be viewed as commentary about society. Willy was a man who was worked all his life by the machinery of democracy and free enterprise and was then spit mercilessly out, spent like a "piece of fruit." However, it was his own fault for buying into the fallacy of the ever-so-popular "American Dream".