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
2) Hayman, Ronald. "Arthur Miller: Between Sartre & Society," in Encounter.1971 by Encounter Ltd, pp. 73-9. ibid. "That's just what I mean. Bernard can get the best marks in school, y'understand, 3) Heyen, William, "Arthur Miller's 'Death of a Salesman' and the American Dream," in Amerikanisches Drama Und Theater im 20. Jahrhundert: American Drama and Theater in the 20th Century, edited by Alfred Weber and Siegfried Neuweiler, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1975, pp.190-201. ibid. personal interest, is the man who gets ahead. Be liked and you will never want. You Willy's is constantly switching from living in the real world and living in a dream world. He eventually has trouble distinguishing between the real world and his world of dreams. "The structural principle of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman is the antithesis between dream and reality...in the play dream is also self-delusion...because they are based on false conceptions of one's talents and capacities(Eisinger 331)." Willy crashes his car several times in a period of only a few months, because he believes he is driving his car from 1928. Willy constantly thinks he is talking to his brother Ben, when Ben left very long ago, and has not seen him in recent years. Biff is led to believe, by his father that he was once a salesman for Bill Oliver, when he really only held the position of a shipping clerk, which is an example of how Willy was trying to impress his son with lies. This dream world that Willy is constantly in shows how Willy is unhappy in his life and tries to find happiness in other ways, sometimes through this dream world, and others through his son's life. but when he gets out in the business world, y'understand, you are going to be five
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Approximate Pages = 8 (250 words per page double spaced)
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