Death of a Salesman

I really think the bottom line, underlying problem of the Loman family is that not one single family member is willing to accept their plot in life. Willy wants to be loved and remembered, the only way to become immortal is to be remembered. He isn't as obsessed with money as most antithesis' concerning the American Dream are. He will accept unearned money from his neighbor if it means he can continue to work at a non-paying job that leads to interactions with people and having them love and respect him, even if it means mooching. His wife enables Willy's problems and insecurities because she feels it's a reflection of her own failure as a loving wife. She blames her son's and her husbands ungrateful company for his unhappiness and silently plays the dutiful wife to keep her hands clean. All the while, Biff wants nothing more than to simply be seen. Either as a success, a failure, neither--he just wants to be loved for who he is, but his father loves important success stories so he accepts that he doesn't deserve to be loved and ops for staying away. I think it's an extremely relatable example of both kids and parents putting their hopes and dreams in the other and assuming the responsiblity and consequence when it surely fails.