In his essay “Working at Wendy's”, Joey Franklin conveys that he works at Wendy's because he feels that, even though the job may seem demeaning, it is something he has to do for the benefit of his family. Franklin uses short stories or anecdotes from earlier in his life or from those whom he works with to prove this point. Franklin in the end shows that he is willing to do anything to provide for his wife and son. Franklin's feeling of embarrassment begins when he recognizes a member of his Boy Scout troop who also works at Wendy's. This disgrace carries on throughout the story as Franklin is embarrassed and uncomfortable working at a fast food restaurant because of his high qualifications.
During this scene, Willy says to Biff that ““I want you to return that. Sure, he’s gotta practice with a regulation ball, doesn’t he? Coach’ll probably congratulate you on your initiative!” (Death of a Salesman, 30). Through this quote it can be analyzed that Willy is thinking like a teenager since he does not realize the felony that his son committed. Willy is encouraging Biff to steal again oppose explaining him his mistake.
The Real Face of the American Dream “The negative side of the American Dream comes when people pursue success at any cost, which in turn destroys the vision of the dream.”- Azar Nafisi. People are striving to achieve the American Dream, but they seem to be more drawn to money and success rather than values and morals, and by doing so they miss the main idea of the American Dream. The author of the novel The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald, is challenges the readers to examine how the American Dream was portrayed in the 1920s and he express the negative aspect of the American Dream through the characters’ lives. The author demonstrates it by showing the wrong perception of the American Dream in this time period, by the illusion that the Buchanan's have the American Dream and by the bad impacts the American Dream has on the characters’ lives. The novel The Great Gatsby demonstrates the wrong idea people in the 1920s had on the American Dream.
In one episode Phil, the husband of the typical family, is writing jokes for a realtors banquet he is hosting. Claire, the wife, hears one of his joke; she laughs at this joke to make her husband feel good about himself but truly doesn’t believe it was funny at all. She knows that if he goes on stage and tells these jokes no one will laugh at them and he will humiliate himself, but doesn’t want to tell him directly because she doesn’t want to hurt his feelings, but his feelings could be hurt even worse if he goes on stage and tells his jokes and no one laughs. In the same episode Cam, the boyfriend of Mitch in the gay couple, starts to exercise because he is overweight. Mitch is overjoyed that he started to exercise, but he wears unflattering tight bike shorts.
The fantasized escape that runs counter to the actual execution in the story mirrors the gap between who Farquhar actually is and who he would like to be. In his world of illusion, he is able to outwit his captors and make it back to the family fold—whereas the reality of his situation is much more grim. Farquhar’s overindulgence of fantasy in both his image of himself and his reimagining of his fate ultimately undoes him. He cannot realize his desires in the real world, and at the end of his life, he is prey to the same delusions and misinterpretations that led him to the gallows to begin with. Farquhar’s Wife Farquhar’s wife emerges as an embodiment of innocence and domestic safety, although throughout the story, she is an almost entirely imagined presence.
The American Dream is a common idea between Brooks and Dalton. The two essays, although similar in idea, approach the view of the American Dream in completely different ways. While Brooks has an optimistic outlook of the American Dream and where Americans are headed as a nation, Dalton is stuck in the problems Americans face in the United States today. Brooks believes that it is our imaginative fire that leads us to progress. Dalton is afraid that Americans are blinded from reality because they are given false hope of achieving the American Dream.
However, for Willy to live by his ideals necessitates building or telling many lies, and these illusions replace reality in Willy's mind. He tells lies about how well liked he is in all of his towns, and how vital he is to New England. At times Willy even believes his own lies and becomes enthusiastic when he tells his family that he made more money than he actually did. Willy then fills his sons so full of this concept of being well-liked that when Biff flunks math he goes to Boston to search for his father. He thought that since Willy is so
Biff returns from the west to visit his family although he doesn’t know how long he’s going to stay. Happy is glad to see him, but Willy seems strangely irritated. He talks to old friends he imagines to the chagrin of his family, but no one has the heart to confront him about it. Willy has a flashback of a time when Biff and Happy were promising high school students. In the flashback, Willy gives his sons a punching bag.
Symbols and Themes in Death of a Salesman Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman concerns the story of Willy Loman, who has taken on many struggles in his life, causing painful memory relapses to interfere with his sanity in the present and future. During the course of Willly’s life, the idea of being well liked over powers reality to the degree of insanity. Miller exhibits the themes of betrayal, abandonment, denial, and faulty ambition to satisfy one’s heart’s desires. The symbolisms of the story are very powerful but conveyed in such a way that presents subtle misfortune with every word spoken by Willy, demonstrating emphasis on the essential themes of the story. The central theme in Death of a Salesman is the idea of satisfying the heart’s desires through faulty means.
Dream or Nightmare, An Analysis of Arthur Miller’s Play, Death of a Salesman Arthur Miller’s classic American play, The Death of a Salesman, is an example of the frustration limits some people will push themselves to in order to attain what was the American dream in the 1940’s. Willy Lomax,the primary character, unfortunately lets his dreams overpower his resolve and the unrealistic goals he set for himself consumed him unto death by suicide. Everyone has dreams, but it is hard to realize those dreams if we do not take into account all of the sacrifice and work that it takes to actualize them. Willy takes all of his internal problems and frustrations and projects them onto his family as well, making them collateral victims of his final solution. Success is like fame, it has the potential to only last for a brief moment, and Willy was trying to hang onto his success when was younger and just starting out as his measure of what the future would be.