ARTHUR MILLER’İN DEATH OF A SALESMAN ADLI YAPITINDA AMERİKAN RÜYASI ve ÇÖKÜŞÜ ss. 1-11

Regarded as one of the most important American dramatists of our century, Arthur Miller's heroes try to compromise with individual crime and responsibilities to live their own conscience in a harsh society. Although Miller's plays seem to be individual drama often telling stories of family, they are inclined to reveal important social, political, and moral problems of the age written. Translated into Turkish as Satıcının Ölümü, the play reflects an American middle-class family, their capability to capture success, wealth and fame; traces of the idea of the American dream are transferred. Protagonist of the play, Willy Loman acquires a professional perspective for trade relations in the American capitalist order. However, there is a failure in his personal-carefully constructed artificial life; he fails to recognize the errors caused by the family and his own thoughts. His failure does not reduce his family’s and especially his wife's love for him, but donning a materialistic identity for the sake of wealth together with unrealistic attitudes brings the end of the dream of success, prosperity and fame. The purpose of this study is to scrutinize the impact of the American Dream on the immigrants and how the United States is assessed by the immigrants with the instance Loman family in Arthur Miller's play Death of a Salesman.