One noteworthy aspect of the environment is that a good deal of the action in the play is set in the Loman household. When Willy first moved in, the Brooklyn neighborhood was a distant, quiet suburb of the city. It represented Willy's American dream home for his future as there was plenty of open space for development and gardening. However, as time went on, the house began to reflect Willy's diminishing optimism. The house became overwhelmed by apartment buildings as well as the noise and pollution of New York City. Soon there was barely any light able to reach the garden in the backyard. This densely urban setting conflicts with Willy's idea of the American dream being lived on the wild frontier.
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This is great, I think it is even a bigger metaphor for the American Dream as a whole. Once, living in the suburbs was something of the frontier as well-moving out of the city was a dream, but then in big cities like New York, the close suburbs became the city as well. They were engulfed.