Willy Loman's Suicide

During that time, people believed that children could and should accomplish more than the parents did and that is why Willy always expects more from Biff and Happy. Americans also have a proneness to do everything for their kids and make it easy on them and so this way the kids are too dependent on the parent and don't have any motivation or power to provide and look out for themselves. This explains why when Biff was a child, Willy let him do whatever and be wild, now Biff “lacks direction as he grows older.” The Loman family act as a normal family would be expected to during the 1940s, where Willy was the provider and the man of the household and Linda was the housewife who just sits back and Biff and Happy have to struggle in order to …show more content…
As Willy was a salesman who had lost his job, it was also understandable why he would commit suicide as America was going through a tough economical period and many who did not have jobs or lost them felt weaker and that they could not provide any more so they take their own lives. Many saw suicide as a rising phenomena during that period which is why Willy’s case was not a surprising one. He left his family behind because he could not do it anymore, which is what most American men at that time did when they were financially unable to support their families no …show more content…
They create a dreamy like atmosphere for the audience where they watch a mans mental state slip away. The play tackles real life situations and emotions that every audience member could relate to and so this is why the play has become extremely popular and affects audiences all around the world. It mostly affects those that lived through that time as it specifically shows and shares the events and experiences that many men during that working period shared. Of course, none of them would have dealt with it the way Willy did but nonetheless, they still went through the same