Death Of A Salesman Happiness

The dream that would have made Willy happy is if he followed his passion for building and maybe creating things. Instead, Willy's dream was to follow the steps of another man. When he was younger, the story has given us a scene from Willy’s past-which was about a man named Dave Singleman. This man was the inspiration behind Willy's choice of his career of a salesman. He saw how this man made lots of

He realizes that these values are not true, and is not too concerned if he does not come out on top. He wants to be able to know who he is. Happy, on the other hand, continues to believe in Willy’s ideas, even after his father’s death, and decides that Willy’s name will succeed.

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

Willy’s self- image that he portrayed to others of being successful was a lie that he had lived with for so long

Willy's attitude is a dangerous thing to himself and his family because his constant bragging gives his family and himself a false sense of who he is. Willy thinks that if you have money then you will be well-liked. To Willy, being well-liked is everything. In his way of thought people without money are not well-liked and if you are not well-liked then you are

To begin, Willy could be described as having a case of misguided life goals paired with self-deception. Willy was unable to admit to his faults. His pride was so boisterous that he would lie to his own family, borrowing money every week from his neighbor, Charley, and claiming that it was his salary. Due to extreme insecurities, Willy compulsively lied to himself and his family in effort of making himself feel better about who he really is, disguising his self doubt and inner anxiety with profound arrogance. Willy raised his sons to believe that in order to be successful, one must be well liked. “Be liked and you will never want.” (1.3) He often lied to them and exaggerated his success, which led them to believe that everything was as good as he claimed them to be. Willy even encouraged deceit in his oldest son by urging him to steal things and cheat on tests. In Willy’s own delusional world, he is a largely successful and well liked salesman with sons destined for greatness, taking every opportunity to brag about these false perceptions. He lied about almost everything, even the quality of

As a salesman, Willy shows he perceives himself highly when talking to Linda about his job: “I’m the New England man. I’m vital in New England” (14). One can also see Willy’s inflated sense of self-worth when he talks to his children about his job: “They know me, boys, they know me up and down New England... I have friends. I can park my car in any street in New England, and the cops protect it like their own” (31). However, even though he is extremely confident about his value as a salesman to his family, the reality of Willy’s reputation at his job is almost completely opposite: “I’m fat. I’m very—foolish to look at... they do laugh at me” (37). Although he essentially brags to his family about his expertise in business, Willy acknowledges the reality that his career is much less successful than he expects it to be. In fact, the inner turmoil inside of Willy from his unrealistic expectation of himself of being a fantastic salesman leads Willy to become mentally unhealthy, and eventually results in Willy committing suicide when he believes that he doesn’t have any self-worth anymore. Willy’s previous inflated self-worth is demonstrated yet again at his funeral, when no one shows up even though Willy thought he had a lot of friends from his job: “Why didn’t anybody come...

Willy is offered help by his friend Charley, a successful Business man, Willies all time friend and only friends he has left, when Charley offers Willy a job, yet willy full of pride and envious of Charley rejects it yet does not rejects it but continues to borrow money from him. This is due to Willies flaw in his desire of being higher in society than anyone else.Willy cannot let go of the past and continuously refers to 1928, when his career was at its peak. His withdrawal into the past is a defense mechanism as he refuses to come to terms with his failure as a salesman. His illusions of grandeur lead to fierce exaggerations of himself. He tells Biff to "Go to Filene's go to the Hub, go to Slattery's, Boston. Call out the name Willy Loman and see what happens! Big shot!" (Miller, 62). He refuses to realize his personal failures and falsely believes that he is successful. Memories of a happier past Willy losing a grip on reality and on time escapes into the past. Despite his desperate searching through his past, The deep probing of dreams and memories in Death of A Salesman where quite important in illustrating Miller's point. Willy is a man stuck in the past reminiscing about times when things where good fabrication of those times really were as good as he imagines them to be? Like his inflated dreams of the future, the past may well be embellished by Willy's wild imagination. It seems

This quote embosses everything that Willy dreams of and stands for. His father went out and made something of himself, and there is nothing that Willy would like to do more. Willy tries to provide for his family as they are supportive of his dreams. The motto that Willy lived by was that he wanted to be “well-liked” by everyone, as this is necessary in order to be successful. After

He thought that to be successful, all you had to do was be liked, and you can do anything. Willy has a very high image of himself, so he views himself as successful, when he realizes that he hasn’t really accomplished anything, and that he has put the wrong values in his sons, he takes his own life. He values self-esteem, image and appearance

He also tells him he will soon be very well-liked and successful. Willy doesn’t want to disappoint the people who support him the most. Willy wants their life to be better than his own. During the play, Willy struggles to peak and to find out who he is.

During the story, I had the chance to witness how Willy slowly by slowly begin to lose himself and his mind in this materialistic life he has created for himself. It becomes clear that the only thing Willy desired and concerned about is keeping up with the people around him in terms of being financially success and possessions. Willy slowly realizes that the man he used to be his no longer that man, he no longer the respected man, he can’t really work or make the same amount of money anymore. Willy unwillingness to understand how everything could have gone so wrong for his sons, and he believes, and thinking that the world owed him for the person he used to prove that he wasn't able to change with society but instead he remains the same. Willy

Willy initially gets demoted in his job and can’t even make enough salary to keep his family afloat, relying on loans from Charley. The contrast between Charley, who is a successful salesman with his own business, and Willy, who can hardly keep his job, is just as apparent as the contrast between Bernard, who went to law school and even went to the supreme court for a case, and Biff, who refused to get his math grade up in summer school and floated around as a farmhand for many years. Willy refuses to mention it, however knows deep in his heart that he is not as successful as Charley. His pride blocks him from admitting it, and thusly causes him to continually decline a job offer from Charley. When Willy sees how successful Bernard is, it makes him wish things didn’t turn out the way they did.

When he went to Boston I believe he never went for his job, but just to have an affair. This is what also lead to no one being at his funeral at the end of the movie, because even though he “worked” he didn’t work to make money, he just worked for his own gain and pleasures. Since he was always working, this is what caused him to miss some of the most important things in his kid’s life, which is what also leads to him making up these illusions in his head that he was included in his kid’s life day after day. The job he was working under a guy named Howard included long hours, even days, on the road just trying to make a profit off the merchandise he was made to sell, but the twisted-up part about all of this is that his employer never paid him for what he did, and just used him to the company’s advantage. Since Willy and Linda had a life to live he was forced to go over to his neighbor, Charlie, to borrow $50 from him just so he can come back to his wife and tell her about his adventures. Charlie also offered Willy a job, since they were close and literally lived next door to each other, but Willy being the stubborn one he is refused the offer and was offended that he would offer him such a thing. The bottom line is that even though willy is old, prideful and stubborn he’s also tired and exhausted both physically and mentally. The stress he had to endure daily I can understand why his mind insisted on going into these fantasy moments where the past was changed and he lived a happy

Willy’s obsession with success leads to the start of him living in his own fantasy world. He lives in the past, for there was hope for him then, but now he is completely subject to failure. Willy’s demise could have been avoided had he changed his dream, and had he not conformed to society. In the end his dream did not pay off, and he ultimately fell victim to the American Dream, and the deceitful ideals of freedom that factored into the