Death of a Salesman Essay

Among the characters is Willy Loman. Willy is portrayed as a very insecure and egocentric travelling salesman who have a very strong belief in the American dream pertaining to easy way of obtaining success and wealth acquisition. According to Nilsson et al (56), success can only be achieved through rigorous indulgent of activities which are viable and acceptable…

During the play, an important discussion between Biff, Linda, and Happy occurs regarding the paternal alpha figure in the play, Willy. Prior to this discussion Willy displays himself as a hardworking, forgetful, and prided man. These traits begin to contradict each other which lead to this discussion about how Biff feels towards his father. There are many underlying factors that lead to why Willy has created this gossip between his kin, the concealment of the truth, and the solitude of Biff’s…

and developed a mental health instability. To be a great man he says is by being charismatic that if you're well liked and work hard then it will pay off in the end. He says, a job in salesmanship is the way to accomplish this. By working as a salesman, he will convert himself into a man who receives a lot of respect and admiration from his family, friends, and from anybody. But his dream may consist of more than just being a great man. Due to his numerous flashbacks, it can also mean that he…

And just like Willy clings to his vision of the old 84-year-old salesman and rationalizes success as being able to pick up a phone and call anyone, Happy holds to his vision of the store manager walking into the store and “waves” of people parting at his entrance. Happy is truly Willy’s son, he sees only what is in front…

lifestyle many yearn to live. However, many overlook the associating sense of delusion and deception that corresponds amongst it, resulting from the excessive fantasizing of prospective wealth, and this mindset is truly apparent in the novel, Death of a Salesman. The novel was written in 1949, the pinnacle of the hysteria surrounding the American Dream, an era prevalent with people striving to fulfill their lifelong ambitions of opulence. It portrays the Lomans, a run of the mill family…

Death of a Salesman, a tragedy written by Arthur Miller, tells the tale of Willy Loman, an ordinary man that is haunted by his missteps. The play details the downward spiral that Willy falls into as a result of his own failure and the failure of his son. Even though Willy is the main character, he is defined by the people that surround him in his everyday life. Willy’s entire life is defined by the fact that he never has the opportunity to receive advice from a fatherly figure. Ben, Willy’s…

Sometimes the people we think are helping us the most are actually making our problems worse. This holds true in Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman. Willy Loman is an extroverted and secretly self-loathing salesman who is struggling with a dysfunctional family and mounting mental illness. His wife, Linda Loman, is the one person he knows will always love him. She makes him feel better by telling him what he wants to hear. This makes Linda an enabler of Willy’s behaviors because she shields him…

There have been countless books, movies, TV shows and plays about families and their attempt to reach success or the “American Dream”. Generally, the characters are successful in their goals. This is not so in “Death of a Salesman” by Arthur Miller. In the play success alludes the Loman family despite that fact that it is something that they aim to achieve in their own ways. There are probably a number of reasons for this but this paper will look at how expectations and responsibility or the…

Willy’s Recognition of his Failures In the play Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller, Willy struggles to get through while constantly having to deal with his failures that he has experienced in his life. Although Willy Loman is a good person in some extent, it is still evident that he knows that he has failed but the thoughts Willy plants in his head stops him from recognizing some of his failures. Throughout the play Willy’s failures are seen by his job, by recognizing that he has failed…

In Death Of A Salesman, there are two major characters in the play that greatly contrast each other. Biff Loman and Bernard, these characters both serve as representations of their father’s ideals in life and how they perceive it. This is important to the play since it shows us how Willy Loman’s ideology on the American dream is superficial and unsuccessful for his son and for himself ultimately, forcing it on Biff. While Bernard's father Charley ideology is more realistic and successful for his…