skewed american dream

• as more light appears, we see a solid vault of apartment houses around the small, fragile-seeming home. an air of a dream clings to the place, a dream rising out of reality


  opening sd, a confined area, shows willy clinging on to the final tendrils of hope that he will be able to attain the american dream of a perfect family and monetary success
• work a lifetime to pay off a house. you finally own it, and there's nobody to live in it'


  willy(6) idea that capitalist society has shoved a fractured and broken version of the american dream down these poorer (more gullible and stupid) people's throats in order to have them buy into it and work their entire lives fuelling this giant capitalist machine and never end up achieving their original goal
• bricks and windows, windows and bricks'

  'you can't raise a carrot in the back yard'


  willy(8) link to the original american dream that was associated with self sufficiency and freedom, tainted by the ever present huge apartment buildings that seem to tower over their plot and destroy any hope of growing plants, metaphor for the way society has ruined willy loman and eventually eradicated him
• i hope we didn't get stuck on that machine'

  'they got the biggest ads of any of them'


  willy + linda(25) both been tricked by capitalist schemes, idea that it's more advertised so must be better, caters to their own materialistic desires of having the best in the market despite struggling to pay off their bills
• they time those things. they time them so when you finally paid for them, they're used up'


  willy(59) the manipulative nature of capitalism, idea that nothing is ever truly yours, greedy corporations making sure they will always have a steady flow of cash from their customers