The Downfall of Crazy Willy Loman
Miller's Death of a salesman is seen to be one of the more superior tragedies in the recent years of the post-modernist era. Breaking away from basic idea of royalty falling from greatness, Miller's play instead focuses on the downfall of the common man Willy Loman, a man with sociological and psychological problems. When first introduced to Willy the readers are immediately set up with the idea that this short tempered man is not in the right mind set. Screaming at the slightest things only to return to a complete off topic discussion leaves the readers in a confused state as to what is really wrong with old crazy man. Death of a salesman became the perfect tragedy with the down fall of Willy thus resulting …show more content…
This problem of Willy falling out of his conscious mind becomes that of his main psychological problem. Throughout the play Willy is constantly being put back into the past not only seeing how things were so long ago, but actually reliving those times. This happens multiple times throughout the play and seems to take more control of Willy with each passing memory that is relived. First seen when talking to Linda about Biff, Willy is somewhat dazed out but quickly snaps back into reality, however it soon evolves to the point where his delusions are appearing in reality itself as seen during a card game with his neighbour Charley. Willy’s older brother Ben is seen to appear in the room itself with Willy talking to him which greatly confuses Charley as he notices nobody is there. This event evolves even further to the point where Ben appears one last time with Willy asking his opinion on suicide, even though Ben may just be in his head Willy still trusts him to the point where he ends up killing himself. Although the cause of this psychological problem is unknown it seems to happen more frequently when Willy’s eldest son Biff revisits the home as stated by
Miller's Death of a salesman is seen to be one of the more superior tragedies in the recent years of the post-modernist era. Breaking away from basic idea of royalty falling from greatness, Miller's play instead focuses on the downfall of the common man Willy Loman, a man with sociological and psychological problems. When first introduced to Willy the readers are immediately set up with the idea that this short tempered man is not in the right mind set. Screaming at the slightest things only to return to a complete off topic discussion leaves the readers in a confused state as to what is really wrong with old crazy man. Death of a salesman became the perfect tragedy with the down fall of Willy thus resulting …show more content…
This problem of Willy falling out of his conscious mind becomes that of his main psychological problem. Throughout the play Willy is constantly being put back into the past not only seeing how things were so long ago, but actually reliving those times. This happens multiple times throughout the play and seems to take more control of Willy with each passing memory that is relived. First seen when talking to Linda about Biff, Willy is somewhat dazed out but quickly snaps back into reality, however it soon evolves to the point where his delusions are appearing in reality itself as seen during a card game with his neighbour Charley. Willy’s older brother Ben is seen to appear in the room itself with Willy talking to him which greatly confuses Charley as he notices nobody is there. This event evolves even further to the point where Ben appears one last time with Willy asking his opinion on suicide, even though Ben may just be in his head Willy still trusts him to the point where he ends up killing himself. Although the cause of this psychological problem is unknown it seems to happen more frequently when Willy’s eldest son Biff revisits the home as stated by