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Both Williams
and Miller criticize The American Dream in their respective works. That dream is the spiritual
one enshrined in the U.S. Constitution, "the pursuit of happiness,"
the Belle Reve alluded to in A Streetcar
Named Desire; in Death of a Salesman, it is self-fulfillment.
Peter Cash writes,

Ironically, this search for spiritual
fulfillment quickly and easily becomes compromised and confused with the hell-bent pursuit of
material success/affluence which in turn brings only spiritual emptiness.

Thus, as Fitzgerald demonstrated in his work, The Great
Gatsby, it is the corruption of this American Dream into the amassing of material
possessions that destroys. For, both Blanche duBois and Willy Loman tragically seek their
happiness in three-dimensional form. Their searches lead only to a crisis of interpersonal
relationships and of self-identity. In a sense, then, both protagonists of the two plays ride
"Streetcar[s] named Desire" although this desire configures differently.