Lets face facts no one has a perfect life. Everyone has conflicts that they must face sooner or later. The ways in which people deal with these personal conflicts can differ as much as the people themselves. Some insist on ignoring the problem as long as possible, while some attack the problem to get it out of the way.

Willy Lowman's technique in Arthur Miller's play Death of a Salesman, leads to very severe consequences. Willy never really does anything to help the situation, he just escapes into the past, whether intentionally or not, to h

At the end of the play Biff finally has had enough of his fathers dreaming and tries to talk some sense into his by stating the true. He tells Willy that his boys are not going to make a lot of money and that you do not get ahead in life because people like you it does not work. This destroys Willies masculinity completely. All of his hopes and dream where just that dreams they were not going to come true. So Willy thought of the manliest thing that he could do to help out the family and get them so money to pay the debts and go on with their lives. He knew that he was worth more dead then he was alive. So he did what he thought was the manly thing was to do, so he drove his car off the bridge and killed himself. That way his family would at least get the twenty thousand dollar insurance policy money.

The next flashback occurs during a discussion between Willy and Linda. Willy is depressed about his inability to make enough money to support his family, his looks, his personality and the success of his friend and neighbor, Charley. "My God if business doesn't pick up , I don't know what I'm gonna do!" (36) is the comment made by Willy after Linda figures the difference between the family's income and their expenses. Before Linda has a chance to offer any words of consolation Willy blurts out "I'm Fat. I'm very--foolish to look at, Linda" (37). In doing this he has depressed himself so much that a woman with whom he is having an affair visits him. The woman's purpose in this point of the play is to cheer him up. She raises his spirits by telling him how funny and loveable he is, saying "You do make me laugh....And I think you're a wonderful man." (38). This whole scene plays into Willies masculinity by adding to his ego. This is why he likes the past so much he felt like he !

appier times were problems were scarce and life was good. He goes back to a time when he was a great seller and was making a good living. The family was a together and his boys in willies mind where building a bright future. He uses this escape as if it were a drug, and as the play progresses, the reader learns that it can be a dangerous drug, because of it's addictiveness and it's eventual deadliness.

Too much of anything, even a good thing,

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