Death Of A salesman
Arthur Miller's play Death of a Salesman is the tragic tale of the play's protagonist, Willy Loman. Loman is a pathetic shell of a man who displays himself to be more than he is by lying. This need to lie about many of the facts of his life is attributed to his lack of self confidence, and general disappointment with his life, and his unfulfilled dreams. Loman often contemplates suicide, dreaming about how people will actually care about him if he actually dies, because as long as he is alive, he is truly nobody. Willy is constantly pushing his oldest son Biff to be better, and specifically to be liked by people, which, Willy thinks at least, is the most important thing in life. Willy's emphasis on the importance of being well liked is a result of experiencing not being well-liked himself. Willy's convoluted stories and lies about his life, as well as his criticism of his eldest son Biff, are meant primarily to impress people, but specifically his son Biff, and make his own dreams be fulfilled by Biff in his life, as well as to keep Biff from becoming a failure as Willy himself has. Willy is a hard working, yet very unsuccessful traveling salesman who has worked for the Wagner Sales firm for almost thirty-five years. At the age
Willy hopes that through his lies and stories that he will help make his son anything but what he himself is, a failure. These feats were ignored by Willy because they were not as concrete in what they proved as Biff's successes. Willy thought that being a likable person was one of the most important things in life. Overall, this play, Miller's Masterpiece, is a sad, pathetic tale of an insecure man who lies to cover it up, and tries to convince everyone except for himself that he is a success, because no matter what, he knows that he is truly a failure. One could be very poor fiscally, but could still live a happy, successful life, but when someone bases all success on economic success, as Willy does in Death of a Salesman, they will not be happy if they are poor. In another situation, the family needs lumber so Biff is sent by his father to go steal lumber from a construction site. Linda claims that Biff is trying to find himself, which Willy views as ridiculous, saying that it is simply too late in Biff's life to be "finding" himself. To save his life, he has to kill himself(Heyen 336). "Doing well" or succeeding, to Willy, was based on one's economic prosperity. Jahrhundert: American Drama and Theater in the 20th Century, edited by Alfred Weber and Siegfried Neuweiler, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1975, pp. That's why I thank Almighty God you're both built like Adonises. "How can he find himself on a farm? In the begging when he was young, I thought well, a young man, its good for him to tramp around. Basically, it seems like everything that Willy believes is required to be a successful business man is the same as everything that he himself is lacking.
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