American playwright Arthur Miller’s play Death of a Salesman follows the self-induced misery inflicted upon a tired, traveling salesman, Willy Loman. The play opens up on New Yorkers, Willy, his wife Linda, and their two adult sons, Biff and Happy, who are visiting under the pretense of Biff coming in from the west. Biff does not seem to get much praise from his move. In fact, immediately after he steps off of the train, his father asks him about his financial welfare out on the farm he works. Willy’s irrational fear of failure is a recurring theme in the play. This incessant worrying hinders him from simple joy to see his son. When the desire for a parent’s child to succeed gets in the way of how he/she cares for them, it is more than concern,
