Personal Narrative: Willy Loman's Death Of A Salesman

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If your Grandpa Willy believed in anything, it was that hard work leads to success. His one aim in life was to make money, and so he did. We lived in the middle of urban New York City, a place where any business person who mattered made it big. Willy started doing sales decades ago. He used to tell your father and I the expertise he gained in all areas of sales and how he brought home the big cash. Willy is the best sales person I have ever had the privilege of knowing. He always treated his profession with the utmost level of integrity and was always prepared. His charm was not the only thing that got him far in the business world; he was also very hard working and the most aggressive sales person you have ever seen.

When he told us that his boss was letting him go, it placed me in a state of shock and disbelief. His boss truly lost a gem to his company that day because everyone admired him. Will used to say how he wanted to show us all the amazing places he got to go as
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Biff was the most popular kid in high school back in the day. He could have become anything he wanted, but he lost sight of what really matters. When he and I had visited your grandpa and grandma just a few days before his tragic death, your father told me how he had worked as a shipping clerk. It did not satisfy him, of course, and when he worked briefly as a salesman like your Grandfather, he did not enjoy to refined lifestyle. Biff’s flaw was that he was not able to see how rewarding working as a sales person can be. He used to say the business world was just “keeping stock, or making telephone calls, or selling or buying.” Willy and I know that business is not the boring repetition lifestyle that your father claims it to be. Biff’s head just doesn’t work right because he is an idealist. He does not see the success that can come if he worked hard to make

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