America is one of the few countries in the world where everyone's dreams are placed high on a pedestal. In the United States, people fall in love with the dream that if a worker tries hard enough, he or she can rise from the bottom to the pinnacle of success. However, to achieve the pinnacle of success, people tend to make sacrifices that can harm their well-being. Studies suggest that one must have social interactions to exist as a normal human being. Humanity was not created to live alone, but to depend on others. People sacrifice strong social connections by socially isolating themselves in order to succeed. In order to achieve the best possible result and stay focused, a worker settles into his job and the American dream. Willy was often very lonely as he had to travel hundreds of miles to cities to sell to strangers who had no idea who he was. Studies have shown that human beings need social interactions. If people don't have social interactions, the effects are as much physical as emotional. James House PHD, director of the Survey Research Center and professor of sociology at the University of Michigan, conducted experiments to test whether there is an association between social isolation and mortality in general populations and among people with established morbidity. In his essay “Social isolation kills, but how and why? House states: “Social isolation has been repeatedly shown to prospectively predict mortality…The magnitude of risk associated with social isolation is comparable to that of smoking and other biomedical and psychosocial risk factors major” (House 273). Social isolation combined with the underlying innate desire to succeed that the majority of people feel they should achieve can potentially pose high risks to Willy's well-being. In fact, Jib Fowles, an author and professor of communications at the University of Houston, used the studies of Harvard psychologist Henry Murray to develop a list of fifteen basic advertising appeals targeting Americans' subconscious desires. The second most important need in this list of fifteen fundamental calls is the need for affiliation. WillyWith scholarships in three universities, are they going to miss it?... Don't be a pest, Bernard! (Miller 30). Then, when Bernard left, Willy taught his sons that being liked is more important than grades by telling them "Bernard isn't very well liked, is he?...Bernard can get the best grades in school, you understand, but when if he does well in the business world, you understand, you're going to be five times ahead of him… Be loved and you'll never want it” (Miller 33 ). However, this ideology is not what it takes to succeed in all areas of life, as Bernard became a lawyer and Biff was unable to graduate his final year, lost his college scholarships, and became farm worker because he failed in mathematics. Willy believes in the need for affiliation because he is a salesman, and when you are a salesman, you not only have to sell products but also your charismatic personality to be successful. While this is understandable for a salesman, this desire was transformed because Willy lost his rationality in isolation. His sons worry about him when they come home and say, "He stops at a green light, then the light turns red and he goes away... Something happens to him." He… speaks to himself” (Miller 20-21). Willy's irrational behavior was due to the isolation in which his wife defended Willy by saying: "And what goes through the mind of a man, traveling seven hundred miles home without`