1.

American dream

Some view America as the land of opportunity, where everyone has an equal chance of
reward as the result of a productive work ethic. Miller and August Wilson argue that
aspects of culture such as poverty, classism, racism, and sexism keep the dream
impossible to grasp for millions of Americans.

The American Dream of the 1940s is reflected in Willy Loman's desires to achieve social
recognition and being well liked by others and material success, but sense of optimism
doesn’t exist anymore In the end his broken identity remained, and his relationship with
his older son also is fractured, and he is unable to adapt to the changing world around
him. This dream in Miller’s play is focused on a "social order" in which people are trying
to reach their highest capabilities and "be recognized by others for what they are," an idea
Willy Loman returns to again and again as all he wants is being well liked by others.

This is American dream. That is a main point in Wilson plays the main theme. Wilson
mentions one interesting point that how African American people are in charge of
making the America of constructing the America and it was their talent. It was the black
people whose existence was so substantial and functional, for the whole American
people, because the American people built the roads, the American people constructed
the railroads the American people worked in. “we did not sit on the sidelines while
immigrants of Europe. Through hard work skills, cutting guide and opportunity built
America into an industrial giant to 20th century. It was our labor that provided a cabinet.
It wasn't our label in the ship yards, and the sock yarn, and a coal mines and the steel
mills. Our label our labor built the roads and railroads. And when America was
challenged we were on the battlefield, our bootstrapped on our blog left to soak into the
soil of places whose names we could not pronounce against an enemy whose only crime
was ideology. We left our blog in France, and Korea and Philippine Philippines and
Vietnam and our only reward has been the deprivation of possibility and the denial of our
mortal, mortal personality.” This is exactly what we're having this play the history of
another spectacular character Gabriel who went to war, he is a war veteran now. But what
he achieves is, the money is not at all useful for him because he is psychologically sane,
he is a sick person suffering from trauma war. His brain doesn't work well. That kind of
brain damaged character. So what's the point of the money for such a character!
2.Fathers and Sons, the importance of manhood

Wilson’s play is universal Play August Wilson uses a kind of a specific situation show
the universal so what are the universal features elements and features, if one of them
which is the most famous one as reading is the battle between the father and son. So, it is
mostly universal every play not just specific to African American culture is universal idea
to battle father son battle, the other one is the marital conflict arose and Troy. So, it is not
something which is specific to culture, African American culture experience the way
Troy treats his family and his second life, it is not just specific to African American
people is something universal.

The play largely revolves around the disturbed relationship between Troy and his
children—particularly his relationship with Cory. Cory’s desire to assert his own
manhood and determine his own future clashes with the authority Troy feels as a father.
Further, Cory’s ambitions go against everything Troy thinks will be good and healthy for
his son’s prosperity.
Earlier in the play, Troy describes a similar situation with his own father growing
up. Troy’s father, while a tough man to live with, looked after his children, according to
his account. But Troy, getting into a severe conflict with his father one day, left his father
—like his own son—to go out on his own.

In Miller’s play Willy is unable to accept, despite his own struggles with the American
Dream, that his son may not fit the form his father wants to force him into. Willy accuses
Biff of being lazy, while his mother claims he is merely lost. Biff, in many ways much
like Willy, has a longing for nature and an hatred of the business life phone calls, selling,
keeping stock. In some ways, Biff's inner conflict parallels his father's. He loves to be
outdoors, but he feels the need to be successful in the eyes of the world, as well. He is
more devoted to his own need to find a sense of success than he is to his family. He lives
with an ongoing inner tension between the desire to be an outdoorsman and the desire to
earn a name for himself in the business world. Willy blames Biff for failing math when
the real failure revealed is Willy's infidelity and its effect on his son. No longer does the
young Biff admire his father and want to be like him. At the end Biff says that neither he
nor his father are leaders. Instead, they are workers who are so pumped up by the illusion
of the American Dream that they cannot find any happiness in just doing their jobs.
Before Willy dies, he ponders for a final time how he can still fulfill the American Dream
for his family by getting them the money they need. He still believes that Biff's success
will come through performance rather than self-fulfillment.
Further, Wilson seems to be exposing us to one kind of ‘masculinity,’ one way it is
constructed and defined—and how that construction is based in the social world around it
as well as in the characters’ personal history. In this case, the masculinity is that of Troy,
and can be interpreted as something of an archetype of a certain kind of working black
father in the 50s.

Kind of masculinity is defined by both characters is as man endured poverty propped-up

by a racist society, and failed to follow one’s dreams—but having nonetheless survived,
stayed alive, and kept going, despite all the odds for instance In the eyes of Troy Cory
and Lyons live comparatively privileged lives having been entirely provided for until
they were grown. But, in the eyes of Troy’s sons—especially Cory—this isn’t enough.
Cory doesn’t feel loved by his father, and can’t see how his father’s harshness is in
anyway symptomatic of something larger than him and beyond his control. The play
perhaps shouldn’t be read as siding with Troy’s treatment of his children and his
decisions in raising them—rather, it tries to show, once again, how two worldviews clash
in the father-son relation. Wilson doesn’t seem to offer a clean-cut solution to escaping
the cycle of misunderstanding, anger, and stuck-in-the-pastness characteristic of men like
Troy and their fathers. He does show, however, how they can have such incredible power
in shaping the future of their children—e.g., Cory doesn’t get to go to college—and
therefore the future generation. Additionally, Wilson shows how difficult it is to free
oneself from such a father without totally severing the relationship. Ultimately, Wilson’s
decision to make the conflict between father and son the central pivot of the play
underscores his desire to show how abstract forces of history—particularly white social
and economic power—manifest themselves, through their racist exertion on peoples’
lives, in real, concrete, everyday lived black experience. The microscopic, psychological
relationship between a father and his son is one of the most intimate venues for those
more macroscopic forces, and as such, is very powerful to witness—it’s a venue with an
educational power for white audiences.

3.August Wilson’s African American immigrant family with Arthur’s Miller the
Jewish American immigrant family

Both of them are immigrants Arthur Miller is an immigrant August Wilson and also as an
immigrant, so they are belong to the very people of immigrants. Miller, is coming from a
Jewish family who comes to America in order to escape persecution. And they came to
America to seek their fortune, the American dream.
So these people, this black people who are who are struggling for their own life for their
own identity. The situation Jewish Americans have in America today is so much greater,
so much prosperous than African American writers, African American people generally
speaking. And it is not at all comparable with the African American people looking at the
way Wilson lives and Wilson was an immigrant, his father was a white Baker, a German
and his mother was Daisy Wilson, a domestic female who influenced Wilson greatly we
need to take consider the fact that August Wilson is very much on this plays are very
much autobiographical. As Troy's father is depicted in Fences August father was very
much struggling with alcoholism. Later on When August Wilson is growing becomes
mature, he changes his name to August Wilson. And he actually took on his stepfather's
name , his mother remarried after his father actually abandoned them, Daisy remarries.
And August Wilson becomes so much interested in his step father because he is a black
person, because he knows a he informs August of, black or African background so he
goes and takes on his surname of his stepmother Wilson it became August . His life was
so interesting and also full of pains. He left a school when he was 15. And it was because
of some tensions he had with his teacher. He left his job he went to work he experienced
different jobs in Pittsburgh he wandered or travelled all places in Pittsburgh to listen to
all the voices and all the stories he is toward the stories in his own memory. And what we
see as his famous plays those that become a kind of psycho plays of history play. They
actually are coming from those voices, voices that he heard when he was working in
Pittsburgh. So another thing that is so important in African American tradition, is the idea
of blues. Blues is the vernacular African American form of music or music genre, by
vernacular, I mean, originates from its, it was originated from Black Panther. Yes, blank
Plantae those slaves who work in plantations it originated from the great migration by
great migration. I mean the time black people migrated from the South to the North, they
stay they started seeing their own songs. In a way even the very musical instruments they
used themselves build it, they hunted the animals they made the muscles of the animals
and they created this musical art form. We have the dominance of blues in fences it
becomes a character becomes a human being blue, it is Wilson reveals and puts blues in
the space of the human being blue becomes a representation of blues music genre. So, it
is very important blues, the blues in the musical genre is depicting the pains is depicting
the harsh situation or the experience of black people and it is very much adapted very
much fitted into the play itself.
At the end I want to hint at Troy and Willy Loman jobs. One of them as old garbage
collector so now after 53 year living in harsh situation and it is sort of mentioned that he
collected garbage itself becomes symbolic here. That is exactly the desires he had. This is
seem to be have theme of human desires, the desires he had and The actually the dreams
and desires he had hopes he had but they were not realized they were not achieved they
were deferred and deflected so he is now collecting them and they are actually kind of
garbage here the garbage self becomes a symbolic issue Somehow the play itself actually
is about individuals That's their The Private needs is in contrast with What happens in the
outer world. On the other play Willy’s focusing on money as the only measure of
success, makes him value himself not as man as father but someone who sells himself,
his dreams to achieve that illusion which he longs times ago was willing to and the
American society of that time made this ideal lie image of life for him.