Arthur Miller & The American Dream - 5.24.16

I believe that Arthur Miller is essentially trying to convey that the American Dream isn't all that, and is not very easily achieved by many. He is basically telling us that even though Willy was a salesman and tried his hardest, he still was not successful and had his faults. And in the end when he purposefully crashed his car into whatever it was, he was trying to get extra money from life insurance for his family because they were on the verge of being broke; which from looking at it was extremely ridiculous because even Linda, who I describe as very naive about the whole thing, didn't even try to stop him or give him help about his suicidal issues (the rubber hose nonsense as well) and always covered it up with niceness or acted like nothing was ever going on. So in the end of it all, I think that Miller was only trying to tell us that the American Dream is basically a sham unless you do it right, from looking at it there were several individuals like Charley, Bernard, and Howard (I believe that is his name) were all very successful and outgoing, which contrasted to the entire Loman family who had their mess ups but still tried and achieved some, to little, to nothing at all with the American Dream.