The Midlife Crises in Death of a Salesman, Alfred J. Prufrock, and American BeautyÂÂ â â Disillusioned and upset, both Arthur Miller's Willy Loman and American Beauty's Lester Burnham share sexual dissatisfactions and a disappointed aching for their separate pasts, yet Willy, as T.S. Eliot's hedging Prufrock, can't move past the disappointments characteristic in his average quality and rather withdraws into his dreams.ÂBy all accounts, Willy and Lester have all the components of settled, trite lives molded from the example of the American Dream: huge homes in center or high society neighborhoods, fruitful youngsters, adoring spouses. Yet, under this veneer, both offer a need that has crushed men and incited doubt in their families for ages: the extra-conjugal issue.ÂWilly's issue with The Woman is a vital defining moment in his relationship with Biff, his most seasoned child. At the point when Biff gets Willy and his courtesan, Willy first endeavors to divert his child and afterward be freed of him. Nonetheless, his endeavored conceal falls flat and always breaks the worshipful connection among father and child.Willy: She's nothing to me Biff. I was desolate, I was horribly forlorn.Biff: You... you gave her Mama's stockings!Willy: I gave you an order!...Biff: You counterfeit! You fake minimal phony! You counterfeit! (Mill operator 1850)ÂBiff's disclosure of his dad's thoughtless activities break the Loman family's delicate veneer of white collar class joy. Albeit Willy is really contrite for his direct, neither one of the his rehashed abstains of quit crying, I provided you a request! (1850) nor his conciliatory sentiments can repair the break among him and Biff. However even as Biff loses his football grant and meanders, much the same as hello there......the aloof sales rep and the forceful weakling. Where Willy Loman rapidly makes society's goals his own and afterward succumbs to his own disappointment, Lester accomplishes satisfaction since he dismisses the guidelines that society sets for a moderately aged man.ÂWorks CitedAmerican Beauty. Dir. Sam Mendes. Writ. Alan Ball. With Kevin Spacey and Annette Bening. Dreamworks SKG, 1999.Eliot, T.S.. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. The Norton Anthology of English Literature. Ed. M.H. Abrams. New York: Norton, 1996. 2459-2463.Mill operator, Arthur.â Death of a Salesman.â New York: Viking, 1965.Millar, Jeff. The Rise and Fall of Everyman: 'American Beauty' Proves Potent Family Portrayal. Houston Chronicle 24 Sept. 1999, Star ed.: 1. Scholastic Universe. LEXISNEXIS. Anger Lib., Fresno, CA. 13 Apr. 2000â <http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe/>.Â