Dreams and aspirations help to keep alive, a sense of hope, something to live for. Yet if one does not make their dreams flexible they may fall short and thereby feel their life is unfulfilled. Both Tom Wingfield and Willy Loman in The Glass Menagerie and Death of a Salesman, respectively, live every day with a hope that soon they will be able to achieve these goals that they have set forth for themselves. Yet …showed first 75 words of 1078 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1078 total…VI “I’m not patient. I don’t want to wait till then. I’m tired of the movies and I am about to move!” Therefore one can see the difference in outcomes of an inflexible dream and a malleable dream. Willy’s life ends in suicide at a final attempt to live his dream through his sons but Tom’s life has not yet ended and he still looks forward, trying to move on.