Above all things, Willy Loman believes that popularity and charisma will outdo hard work and innovation, and that rubs off on his sons. Willy's actions are worse than his words. Throughout the play, Willy mentions his lonely life on the road. To alleviate his loneliness, he has an affair with a woman who works at one of his client's offices.
While Willy and the nameless woman rendezvous in a Boston hotel, Biff pays his father a surprise visit. Once Biff realizes that his father is a "phony little fake," he becomes ashamed and distant. His father is no longer his hero. After his role model falls from grace, Biff starts to drift from one job to the next, stealing petty things to rebel against authority figures. Willy Loman belittles his industrious and intelligent neighbors, Charley and his son Bernard; he mocks both individuals when Biff is a high school football star.
However, after Biff becomes a jaded drifter, Willy turns to his neighbors for help. Charley lends Willy 50 dollars a week, sometimes more, in order to help Willy pay the bills. However, whenever Charley offers Willy a decent job, Willy becomes insulted. He is too proud to accept a job from his rival and friend. It would be an admission of defeat. Charley might be a surly old man, but Miller has imbued this character with a great deal of pity and compassion.
In every scene, we can see that Charley hopes to gently steer Willy onto a less self-destructive path. For example:. In their last scene together, Willy confesses: "Charley, you're the only friend I got. Isn't that a remarkable thing? In his youth Willy had the choice between two ways of life.
On the one hand he had the opportunity to lead a life in the countryside and work outdoors and on the other hand the possibility to live in the city and earn his money in the business. The decisive point for his life was the meeting with an eighty-four year old businessman named Dave Singleman.
And when I saw that, I realized that selling was the greatest career a man could want. When Willy had just started to work for his firm in Boston, Ben offers him to join him on a trip to Alaska, where a proposition was waiting for them. Willy refuses that proposal since his wife Linda assures him that they possess everything to lead a life in harmony with their two children. S B Sarah Breitkopf Author.
Add to cart. From his wife Linda we hear that her husband has tried several times to commit suicide. Sign in to write a comment. Read the ebook. Who Killed Willy Loman? An Investigat Individuum und Gesellschaft in Death After this my attention will be directed on the Loman family and I will initially focus on its members and characterize them. Then I will analyze how the relationship between Willy and Biff has developed and why it fails during the play.
Finally, I will give a conclusion which will sum up the most important findings which I figured out during my analysis. His first wife was Mary. Grace Slattery who he married in After he got divorced, he immediately married Marilyn Monroe in June However, their marriage began to fall.
In he married Ingeborg Morath with whom he lived in Connecticut. They have one daughter, Rebecca. Arthur Miller began to write when he was a student at the University of Michigan and after receiving his degree in he joined the Federal Theater Project in New York City.
Death of a Salesmen was opened in and won the Pulitzer Prize. Since his family lost much money during that time, he started to be interested in the connections between the individual and society and the way.
By dint of this interest Miller developed sensitivity for the serious deficiencies in private, social and public relations which are also shown in Death of a Salesman. For nearly six decades, Miller has been creating characters that wrestle with power conflicts, personal and social responsibility, the repercussions of past actions, and the twin poles of guilt and hope. Read an in-depth analysis of Biff Loman.
Read an in-depth analysis of Linda Loman. Although he works as an assistant to an assistant buyer in a department store, Happy presents himself as supremely important. Additionally, he practices bad business ethics and sleeps with the girlfriends of his superiors.
Read an in-depth analysis of Happy Loman. Charley owns a successful business and his son, Bernard, is a wealthy, important lawyer.
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