Essay Introduction
As a teenager, have you ever thought you might not figure out what path you should
take? What dreams you should follow? This is not uncommon, but it is usually resolved
somewhere down the road. For some, they start off with the wrong ambitions and
dreams, but eventually come back to the path they should have initially set on. Some
get their choice right the first time, while the remainder tend to never find their true
calling at all. Willy Loman is the later. A play written by Arthur Miller, it shares Willy
Loman’s quest for his dreams, and his story. Willy never went down the right path for
him because he believes he does not need to work hard, that his natural talents were
enough to take him to his American …show more content…
His worst ‘wrong dream’ is that he is under
the impression that if he was able to obtain a large sum of money, the other aspects of
his life would somehow be successful, even though there is no correlation in the two. It comes to no surprise to you that Willy Loman thought a salesman was the best
occupation a man could have. “And when I saw that, I realized that selling was the
greatest career a man could want. ‘Cause that could be more satisfying than to be able
to go, at the age of eighty-four, into twenty or thirty different cities, and pick up a phone,
and be remembered and loved and helped by so many different people?” (Miller ). This
is a conversation between Willy and his former boss, Howard. This quotation is
evidence of Willy not only believing sales is the best occupation a man could wish for, it
also shows he believes it enough to chase after it as a life long goal. The decision he
made all those years ago, is just the beginning of a life time of wrong dreams that Willy
sets his mind to. Due to the fact Willy’s centre piece of his dreams was wrong, the …show more content…
Although Willy was mistaken about sales being right for him, that is not the main
reason his dreams of sales was failed. His dreams of sales were failed because they
were not actually his dreams, they were David Singleman’s. “When he died—and by the
way he died the death of a salesman, in his in his green velvet slippers in the smoker of
New York, New Haven and Hartford, going into Boston—when he died, hundreds of
salesmen and buyers were at his funeral. Things were sad on a lotta trains for months
after that.” (Miller ). This quotation is Willy expressing envy in Dave Singleman, as he
was so well-liked as a salesmen that hundreds of salesmen and buyers gathered at his
funeral, leading to Willy’s vision of himself in that place. Coming from a great mind “Your
time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.. - ”Steve Jobs. This quotation
gives a very good description of what Willy is not following. Evidently, Willy’s life is
obviously limited, as Linda has found out he has tried to kill himself with the gas line.
Due to his life being limited, he should not spend the remaining days of his life trying to
capture someone else’s life, which is exactly what he is trying to do with
As a teenager, have you ever thought you might not figure out what path you should
take? What dreams you should follow? This is not uncommon, but it is usually resolved
somewhere down the road. For some, they start off with the wrong ambitions and
dreams, but eventually come back to the path they should have initially set on. Some
get their choice right the first time, while the remainder tend to never find their true
calling at all. Willy Loman is the later. A play written by Arthur Miller, it shares Willy
Loman’s quest for his dreams, and his story. Willy never went down the right path for
him because he believes he does not need to work hard, that his natural talents were
enough to take him to his American …show more content…
His worst ‘wrong dream’ is that he is under
the impression that if he was able to obtain a large sum of money, the other aspects of
his life would somehow be successful, even though there is no correlation in the two. It comes to no surprise to you that Willy Loman thought a salesman was the best
occupation a man could have. “And when I saw that, I realized that selling was the
greatest career a man could want. ‘Cause that could be more satisfying than to be able
to go, at the age of eighty-four, into twenty or thirty different cities, and pick up a phone,
and be remembered and loved and helped by so many different people?” (Miller ). This
is a conversation between Willy and his former boss, Howard. This quotation is
evidence of Willy not only believing sales is the best occupation a man could wish for, it
also shows he believes it enough to chase after it as a life long goal. The decision he
made all those years ago, is just the beginning of a life time of wrong dreams that Willy
sets his mind to. Due to the fact Willy’s centre piece of his dreams was wrong, the …show more content…
Although Willy was mistaken about sales being right for him, that is not the main
reason his dreams of sales was failed. His dreams of sales were failed because they
were not actually his dreams, they were David Singleman’s. “When he died—and by the
way he died the death of a salesman, in his in his green velvet slippers in the smoker of
New York, New Haven and Hartford, going into Boston—when he died, hundreds of
salesmen and buyers were at his funeral. Things were sad on a lotta trains for months
after that.” (Miller ). This quotation is Willy expressing envy in Dave Singleman, as he
was so well-liked as a salesmen that hundreds of salesmen and buyers gathered at his
funeral, leading to Willy’s vision of himself in that place. Coming from a great mind “Your
time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.. - ”Steve Jobs. This quotation
gives a very good description of what Willy is not following. Evidently, Willy’s life is
obviously limited, as Linda has found out he has tried to kill himself with the gas line.
Due to his life being limited, he should not spend the remaining days of his life trying to
capture someone else’s life, which is exactly what he is trying to do with