Death of a Salesman is about the struggles and failure of Willy Loman. A middle aged, quietly dressed, exhausted traveling salesman. In Death of a Salesman Miller begin the play with Willy Loman, who after an unsuccessful attempt to start a selling trip, has just returned home early. Willy's family had notice him talking to himself about things from the past. Linda his wife, seeing his exhaustion knows Willy is close to his psychological breaking point. She pleads with him to seek a non traveling position at the home office, because driving futile miles had become strenuous for him. Willy is portrayed in the play as a man holding to the past, too afraid to let go, because if he does he would see himself as a failure. Willy focused most of his energy on two events, his son Biff's big football game and the regret of not accompanying his brother to Africa. When his dreams could no longer satisfy him he allowed the image of his brother, Ben, who represented success to guide him. The main tragedy of the play occurred when Willy committed suicide. To understand Willy's tragedies we must view his psyche, his Unfulfilled dreams, frustrated hope and draw parallels to our

him. "You can not always believe the evidence of your own eyes, since appearances can be deceiving, it is not our eyes that deceive us; rather, it is our beliefs and expectancies"(125 Bugelski). "When Willy moves from the kitchen to Linda and the boys, to the Arthur, back to Linda and then to Happy and Charley in the kitchen"(124 Martin). The movement shows Willy taking a double trip into the past before returning to the future. Most people would consider Willy a psychopath that needs psychological assistance. His psychological state caused by depression. Depression is the most common psychological disorder among the elderly. Willy "is the American every man somewhere between the pathetic and the tragic" who never forgot his dreams (124 Martin).

Willy Loman's situation (73 Bugelski). There is no single personality type that we consider a suicide risk. Rather, a person can start thinking about suicide for many different reasons.

Willy's dream of his son, Biff becoming a famous football player has filled his memories for years. Biff "had been the greatest football player his school had ever known" and received three offers for a college scholarship, which he never attended neither (1365). Since he failed math, he was unable to except the scholarship, unless his father persuades the teacher to change the grade. His father was on a selling trip in Boston. Biff arrived to learned his father was having an affair. The devastation caused Biff his dreams of becoming successful. Although his son's achievement was nonexistent, he had hoped that his son Biff would by successful. Apparently Willy was unable to let the memory of the big football game Biff had at Ebbets Field rest in the past, because according to Willy it was the highlight of his life. The following statement portrayed a father concerned about the warfare of his son.

Miller shows Willy as "a protagonist who no longer distinguishes between memory, imagination, reality and desire"(121 Martin). The tragedy begins to unfold when Willy's mem

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