The pursuit of the American Dream can inspire ambition. It can transform a person into being motivated and hardworking, with high standards and morals. Or it can break a person down, to the point of driving them almost mad as a result of the wild and hopeless rush to the dream. This is what happens to Biff, Happy and Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's book Death of a Salesman. In the play, Willy Loman is a traveling salesman whose main ambition in life is wealth and success, neither of which he achieves. Corrupted by their father, Biff and Happy also fail to achieve success. Biff can't find a stable, well-paying job even though he's 30, and he hates the business world, preferring instead to live on a farm in California. Happy, on the other hand, has a stable and fairly well-paid job, but still suffers from emptiness and a sense of loss, a void which he fills by sleeping with many women, some of whom are even married or engaged. Therefore, Miller uses motifs such as deception, theft, and hallucination, to show the pathology that all three of these characters experience in the wake of the American Dream. Miller's use of lies throughout the book reveals the madness that results from the pursuit of the American dream. Happy habitually lies to others and himself because he can't face reality and wants to seem better than he is. When at a restaurant with Biff, Happy tries to impress a girl, saying that "at West Point, [people] called him Happy" and that he sells champagne (Miller 102). Try to get his attention by talking about money and hope to be more attractive if he claims to be rich and successful. The American dream is all about money, which Happy lacks, so he pursues the dream in his own way, pretending to be rich because he knows he never will be. When Willy enters the restaurant, excited to hear about Biff's meeting with Oliver, Happy encourages his brother to lie, saying "[Biff] told [Oliver] my idea for Florida" (108). Once again, Happy believes that without money he will have no value to his father. Therefore, he tries to disguise his and Biff's failure with deception, in order to disguise the fact that he has not achieved wealth. Happy learns this behavior as a kid from Willy, who urges him to "be careful with those girls, don't make promises"." (27).