In the American tragic play “Death of a Salesman” by Arthur Miller. Willy Loman, the protagonist, is an increasingly older and tired salesman. He has held the same position in his company for 30 years and has now been reassigned to a traveling job with only commission and no salary. He struggled financially, and the trip from Brooklyn to New England took its toll on him in his old age. His wife, Linda, asks him to ask for a raise or an office job so he doesn't have to travel in his old age. When Willy asks his boss Howard for a salary and an office job. Howard, his boss (who was once the son of Willy's former boss), says that there is no place for Willy in an office job and that "business is business." Willy, in an effort to persuade Howard, begins to tell a story about David Singleman, the salesman who inspired Willy to pursue a career as a salesman and who is idolized by Willy because he was well known. Willy's growing desperation as he begs his boss to give him an office job gives the passage a sense of urgency, but in the passage Willy maintains his calm as he tries to persuade Howard to help him. WILLY: And when I saw that, I realized that selling was the greatest career a man could wish for. Because what could be more satisfying than being able to go, at the age of eighty-four, to twenty or thirty different cities, pick up a phone, and be remembered, loved and helped by so many different people? Do you know? when he died - and besides he died like a salesman, in his green velvet slippers in the smoking room of New York, New Haven and Hartford, on his way to Boston - when he died, hundreds of salesmen and d Buyers were at his funeral. Things were sad on many trains for months after middle of paper......moral dream of America's founders. America was also trying to portray an image of capitalist superiority with a happy image of an American society where everyone was happy, well-fed, and living the American dream, when in reality people were suffering financially, racial unrest were occurring and social classes were becoming more and more evident. Today we still see Americans who uphold the materialist values ​​of Miller's era, but their numbers are far fewer. Some Americans today still possess the same materialistic values ​​as Willy Loman, but what is more common among Americans today is the need to be "liked." Many Americans, like Willy, are still unhappy and insecure about their financial situation. Works Cited Miller, Arthur. Death of a Salesman: Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts and a Requiem. New York: Penguin, 1998. Print.