Death of a Salesman Blog 9

• Blog – What are your initial thoughts for this essay?

Both Norma and Willy have dreams that don’t come true. For Willy he knows that he is a failure yet he tries to make his life better with re-creating memories. Norma never thinks that her dream has died because no one tells her. In connection with Langston Hughes’s poem, Harlem, he is asking questions about dreams. The two characters, Willy and Norma’s dreams connect with this poem because both dreams are gone and Hughes is asking what happens to a dream deferred. I think that both texts are telling us that people who let themselves think their dream is true, end up unhappy. Since both characters are similar it is easy to see how others play a role in others dreams.