Many writers such as Kate Chopin, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Arthur Miller have used "The Tempest", "Babylon Revisited" and Death of a Salesman to illustrate how the American family was being torn apart by pressure from societies' moral standards that prevented them from achieving happiness. Kate Chopin used her characters to denote the pressure of religious norms that had to be followed to be incompatible with society. Fitzgerald demonstrates how the pressure to become prosperous affected his lifestyle with alcohol consumption and he slowly separated himself from his family. Meanwhile Arthur Miller uses his characters to show how the idea of acceptance in society does not make families happy but is instead found in a fantasy dream. Despite the fact that many families have not achieved the “American Dream” and have struggled in everyday life without true happiness, societies have not fully understood the true meaning of family and happiness. Today many families continue to search for the meaning of what it means to achieve the American dream, but they find themselves living lives similar to those of the characters in the story, without family, without love and without
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