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Loman, in his attempt to achieve the American Dream while living amongst his
wife and children. Throughout the play the reader is introduced to many
characters, some who are dynamic and some who are static. In any good literal
work there is a balance of both of these types of characters, and Death of a
Salesman is no exception that Willy Loman, his wife Linda, and their two
children, Biff and Happy, create these characteristics.
Willy Loman is focused on his primary goal to achieve the American
Dream through hard work. At the beginning of the play Willy had declined to
travel with his brother, he insisted that he would achieve his dream. Four years
later his brother stumbles upon a diamond mine and is instantly rich. Willy runs in
to some tough times, and is constantly asking his friend Charlie for money.
Charlie has offered Willy jobs on several occasions, and Willy constantly refuses.:
CHARLEY. I offered you a job. You can make fifty dollars
a week. And I won’t send you on the road.
CHARLEY. Without pay? What kind of a job is a job
. . .
Willy is still determined to achieve his dream in his own way, as a salesman. Even when he is blaming himself, she tries to redirect the
blame. It
seemed as if her primary purpose in the play was to support Willy. Arthur Miller does a wonderful job
of keeping a balance between static and dynamic characters within Death Of A
Salesman. Happy and Biff are the dynamic characters; Happy becomes the more
successful and more well-liked, while Biff becomes the spitting image of his
father, eventually realizing his father’s faults. (1638)
She doesn’t want him to blame himself for anything, she continuously strives to
put him on a pedestal.
Biff Loman is a dynamic character, because unlike Willy he eventually
realizes the unfairness of society. Even in death he endeavored to achieve his
dream by dying the death of a salesman. By the end of the play
Biff had gained this understanding, and in this aspect had changed.
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