Willy Loman's Daydreamin

In the play, “Death of a Salesman”, written by Arthur Miller, in 1949. Willy Loman failed to recognize his own shortcomings. He felt as if he was boxed in, in what used to be an open spacious area to live.“The way they boxed us in here. Bricks and windows, windows and bricks” (Miller 17). The neighborhood had grew and been built-up, while he still had a small modest home. Willy Loman had several other shortcomings about himself such as when thought of himself as being the top salesman around town. Willy Loman has been a traveling salesman for thirty-four years, and he likes to think of himself as being vital to the New England territory he works. But in reality, he He constantly compares himself to Dave Singleton, a salesman who would go into a …show more content…
He’s not aware of his actions. And his actions are what makes him the tragedy. Biff and Harold Loman, who are Willy’s sons, “discuss their father's mental degeneration, which they have witnessed in the form of his constant indecisiveness and daydreaming about the boys' high school years” (en.Wikipedia.org, 2017). Willy Loman’s daydreamin, seems to alter his current thoughts, when anyone tried to explain a matter to him. This is what happened when Happy tried explianing what occurred at his interview/meeting with “Happy, Biff, and Willy meet for dinner at a restaurant, but Willy refuses to hear bad news from Biff. Happy tries to get Biff to lie to their father. Biff tries to tell him what happened as Willy gets angry and slips into a flashback of what happened in Boston the day Biff came to see him”(en.Wikipedia.org, 2017). Willy Loman was so focused on his family’s survival, that he killed himself, they could collect insurance money and live on. “Can you imagine the magnificence of twenty thousand dollars in his pocket?”, as he stated to Ben, about his family(Miller, 118). Twenty thousand dollars is the amount of Willy Loman’s death insurance