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The loss of identity and the quest for it has been a recurrent theme in contemporary American literature. Arthur Miller’s works can be studied in the light of the same. The American Dream, i.e. the ability to become prosperous, shows the traditional spirit of Americans in Miller’s Death of a Salesman. The play focuses on a man named Willie Loman. He is a salesman by profession and does adequately in terms of income, but his life is all but a failure. Willie is a man who does not have a true sense of himself. He does not even recognize how much his family loves and cares for him. In Death of a Salesman, Willie and his family members face various psychological elements deal with many problems. Willy Loman, in Death of a Salesman, could not follow the change in time and become obsessed with the old values of success from the past. It all ends in the tragic end of an American salesman. To a great extent, it is the saga of a modern man.

American literature, the American dream, salesman.