willy loman
For Willy Loman, to be liked was the definitive criterion of life success. The American dream of wealth and luck became Willy's dream, and it almost became reality. Willy realizes that in fact he has lived his life in vain, never achieving nor succeeding but remaining a shadow of his ambition. It is this sudden insight that urges him into a fantasy, afraid to face the future. It is only through Willy's failure as a salesman that his innate desire for the outdoors is exposed. At the end of the play, Charley mentions, "... He was a happy man with a batch of cement ... so wonderful with his hands ... he had the wrong dreams, all wrong.". It has been often said that the play emphasize the path not taken may have been the right one, still Willy holds the inability to see who and what he is. Miller has created Willy's wife Linda in such a way, that it is difficult to confirm whether she is a positive or destructive force upon him. It is hard to understand why she allows this deception to !rise to the level that it does. The love Linda holds for Willy is relentless. She sees herself as his protector, allowing him to laps into his illusions where he feels contentment. But in her love for her husband she is ironically his destroyer. Lind
rking hard for his whole life, Willy wakes up to realize that he is a failure. On top of all of this, both of his sons despise him. His wife is very loving towards him but he does not take time to appreciate it. Because he is a failure, Willy starts to go crazy. It is a case of trying to chase the inevitable, "American Dream." During the whole play there are vivid flashbacks of Willy in his youth. He begins making a salary of $170 per week, he buys a nice home in the suburbs, and has two sons. Life was good at that time. But by the end, Willy dies without a job. Modern buildings have surrounded the neighborhood that was so nice when he first moved there. The sight of his house between all those newer and better houses shows how much Willy stayed dwelled in the past. Throughout the whole play Willy's dialogue is usually about what used to be, never reaching the American Dream, never ies to psychotic disorders. However, these failing did not account for his tragic end, by themselves. The most obvious flaw in society is greed, the desire to get ahead. It is the philosophy of business that contains the dreams of man. Sometimes, this can drive man to great things, sometimes it can drive a man to ruin. The next largest flaw in society is a lack of compassion. This could be as a result of overwhelming greed. "I'm always in a race with the junkyard! I just finished paying for the car and it's on it last legs. The refrigerator consumes belts like a god dam maniac. They time those things." Willy's belief in this statement drew him to believe that big business lacked compassion. It
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Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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