A Comparison Of Willy Loman And Death Of A Salesman

     The single most weighted factor that edges Willie to his demise is his inability to make a living and achieve his “American Dream”. After being a salesman for many years, Willy just can’t cope with the fact that he hasn’t been successful at all. He believes that he is a terrific salesman. His imaginative thinking won’t let him accept the fact that he has become a failure instead of a wealthy businessman. Willy believes that to be well liked is the means to being

The Fences written by August Wilson and Death of a Salesman was written by Arthur Miller are two plays that can be considered different in terms of their plot. Both plays have two very different cultural backgrounds. The background affects each protagonist therefore differently. However, there are also similarities beyond the plot. Despite the different backgrounds of each protagonist or main characters, they are both trying to achieve their dreams. They both fail ironically in similar ways .Willy Loman in the death of a salesman and Troy Maxson are both hardworking men trying very hard to help their families . They strive very hard to be successful, yet they die in the end feeling they did not earn the respect they deserved.

In the play “Death of a Salesman”, by Arthur Miller, the primary theme can be seen as a conflict between man and society. In which the ambition to achieve the “American Dream” controls the life of Willy Loman and the influences he has. When success is not reached, sends Willy’s mind on a mental ride.

Finally, Willy failed greatly at achieving the American Dream. People have come to the United States hoping for a life of happiness and success, at the same time, hoping to take pride in what they do and enjoy it. Willy did not achieve the American Dream. He had no pride in what he did, although he hid these emotions. I believe he was so embarrassed because he could not make a single sale or earn a single dollar that he began borrowing fifty dollars a week from Charley, and then pretended it was his salary. He lied to his family and to himself. He did not allow himself to do what he truly wanted to do because he believed that it was more remarkable to be supposedly successful. He therefore failed miserably at the true American Dream, exchanging it for an unattainable fantasy.

For most, the American Dream is a sure fire shot at true happiness.  It represents hope for a successful, fortune-filled future.  Though most agree on the meaning of the American Dream, few follow the same path to achieving it.  For struggling salesman Willy Loman, achieving this dream would mean a completely fulfilled existence.  Unfortunately, Willy's simplistic ideas on how to accomplish his goal are what ultimately prevent him from reaching it.

        Willy is like an impetuous youngster with high ideals and high hopes.  Children always have high hopes for their

People could have learned certain characteristics from a family member and this may lead them to act just like them. In the book, Death of a Salesman, by Arthur Miller, there are many different places that show Willy and Biff criticizing each other and talking badly about each other due to their similarities. However, some people have pointed out that they feel Willy and Biff still do not have enough in common with each other. This may be the case; however, it lacks the evidence. Biff and Willy hate each other and complain and criticize each other because of all the things that they have in common.

The Death of a Salesman written by Arthur Miller. A book about an old man whose occupation is a salesman. The story takes place in Brooklyn Manhattan, in a nice quite neighborhood and the main protagonists is named Willy Loman. Willy Loman main goal in life was to succeed and make a name for himself but since he didn’t achieve it, he passed on that dream to his two sons. From Willy Loman point of view his second son did make a named out of himself but for his first son, that dream of success didn’t happened. Biff Loman is his name. The Long Journey into Night written by Eugene O’Neill. A book about a family whose learning or trying to deal with these obstacles they have in they’re life. Theirs a certain character in that book whose named

Arthur Miller, A play writer in the twentieth century, wrote a play entitled Death of a salesman that won him the Pulitzer Price just a year after its release. In the play Miller expresses the life of a 60 year old salesman that undergoes through lack of success in his life and sees the same thing happening ,to his two grown sons now in their mid-thirties, as the American dream faded away being replaced by capitalism in the late 1940s. The play starts of by introducing Willy Loman, the protagonist, and tells the story of the final twenty four hours in Willy’s life all the way to his death and funeral. Between that time laps the audience is able to see Willies past thanks to his constant daydreams, along with his sons past and wife and

"Work a lifetime to pay off a house. You finally own it, and there's nobody to live in it." Miller, Arthur. Death of a Salesman; Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts and a Requiem. New York: Viking, 1949.15. Print .These words undesirably summarize Willy Loman’s life. Throughout the play produced in the 1940s and the film created in 1985, Willy Loman slowly but surely shows his true nature as a person willing to do anything to become successful and well-known. Even though the film directed by Volker Schlondorff presents this “all American man” with the same characteristics as the unknown salesman in the play written by Arthur Miller, how the play and the film decided to emphasize

The lives of the Loman’s from beginning to end seems troubling, the play is centered on trying to be successful or trying to be happy, and the sacrifice which must be made of one to achieve the other. The environment that these characters live in encourages them to pursue the American dream, which can be said to devalue happiness through the pursuit of material success. Death of A Salesman written by Arthur Miller has several themes that run through the play, one of the most obvious is the constant striving for success. Willy Loman put his family through endless torture because of his search for a successful life. Willy, Biff, and Happy are chasing the American dream instead of examining themselves

In “Death of a Salesman” by Arthur Miller, the main character of the film Willy Loman was a man living on the end of moderns of America, in the late 1940’s. More and more inventions and cars are being manufactured, while Willy Loman is really trying to get the best for his family. When he steadily starts to lose his mind more and more within the future, it becomes really clear that the only thing that he is worried about is making sure that the people around him is in well health. Within the play, he repetitively says the fact that he is drastically running out of money and cannot buy any of the new contraptions, and then he finally regrets not going to Africa with Ben, who developed a lot of money within the time. Willy Loman was living a

Arthur Miller wrote many plays in his time, but one in particular, written in 1947 and directed in Beijing in 1983, was the “play that established him as a great American playwright” called “Death of a Salesman”. This play was about the difference between a New York family’s life in reality and what they dreamed it would be. An old man, by the name of Willy valued popularity and his friends way more than skills or even a real personality. His goal was to die a man that had all of these things, and he ends up killing himself in the end. Miller’s goal was to “take the audience on an internal journey through the mind, memories, fears, anxieties of his central character.” “Death of A Salesman” has been very popular for over a decade, performed internationally, and was even produced into movies (Kristofoletti). Many people remember this play because of how inspiring it was, also because it did not compare to any other of the ones he had ever written.

The play Death of a Salesman greatly portrays a specific ideology in regards to values, dreams, goals, and success in our consumer-driven society. It helps showcase the American dream that society tends to strive for even in the early 1900’s (the play is set in the 1940’s). That dream of being a successful business person or vendor. As well as the theory that image and physical attributes are most important to gaining fruition. Willy Loman plays a man in his sixties who has strived for this American dream for over 30 years but realistically has failed miserably on his goal in life – a wealthy salesman like his idol Dave Singleman (a fellow who could make a fortune selling without even leaving his hotel room). He spends his entire life in

Approaching the seventieth anniversary of its publication, Arthur Miller’s play, “Death of a Salesman”, continues to enrich the minds of those who read or see a production of it. Miller’s work maintains its relevance even today. Critics and academics differ in their views of the play. Some proclaim the piece as transcendent; it is still read, taught and performed almost seven decades after its release. Others declare that the play is flawed, unrealistic and difficult to follow due to Miller’s employment of an ebbing and flowing timeline. The frenetic pacing between past and present can be confusing and schizophrenic. One critic is insulting in his view of the play. “Death of a Salesman’s failure … lies in the failure of its intellectual content and order” (Foster 87-88). The playwright is unaffected by such criticism as it comes from those accustomed to the traditional model of playwrighting. Arthur Miller has changed the rules as happens with progress. Arthur Miller asserts its transcendence in an interview for the fiftieth anniversary of the play (Kullman 1). Miller pointed out that the play had performed in different countries and cross-culturally. Miller went on to assert that “Death of a Salesman” works when the performers are on point (Kullman 2). Miller deliberately created the characters of Willy Loman and his family without race or culture, which results in the play’s popularity and longevity. Many people can relate to the characters of this play. Considering the