Denial And The Quest For Identity In Death Of A Salesman

I tend to always start my essays with questions that can relate back to the story, but it tends to make you think about your life and how some things we do everyday and tend to take for granted. Like take for example you tend to see people with “nice” cars or homes, you start trying to live up to their standards and tend to lie about how you live to impress others. You will lose everything you have, trying to be Mr. or Mrs. Everything. In this play the main character, Willy Loman, tends to have problems with being honest with his life and his business. Willy thinks that being in denial of who he is and lying on his success will bring him more success rather than accepting whom he is and that his illness may cause him to drift from his family. In the story Willy shows signs of having problems remembering things …show more content…
Every one of the subjects cooperate to make a dreamlike climate in which the audience watches a man's character (Willy Loman) and mental strength disappear. The play keeps on influencing groups of onlookers since it enables them to hold a mirror up to themselves. Willy's self-censure, feeling of disappointment, and overpowering misgiving are feelings that a crowd of people can identify with in light of the fact that everybody has encountered them at some time. People keep on reacting to Death of a Salesman on the grounds that Willy's circumstance is not extraordinary: He committed an error — a slip-up that unalterably changed his association with his loved ones most — and when the greater part of his endeavors to annihilate his oversight come up short, he makes one thousand endeavor to redress the slip-up. Willy fervently denies Biff's claim that they are both normal, standard individuals, yet amusingly, it is the comprehensiveness of the play which makes it so persevering. Biff's announcement, "I'm a dime a dozen, and so are you" are valid all things