How Does Willy Obtain Happiness In Death Of A Salesman

Since Willy could not reach the dream himself, he bargained his identity for money, so his son could “live the dream” that he never could. Willy states to Happy, “ The man knew what he wanted and went out and got it! Walked into a jungle, and comes out, the age of twenty-one, and he’s rich!”(41) When Willy believed that he could amass fast money for his family, he thought about killing himself. All he could think about was the money that could be earned for his family; “Remember, it’s a guaranteed twenty-thousand-dollar proposition” (125). Willy became obsessed with the idea of quickly obtaining this dream, and thought the only fix was to make his son successful. Willy thought you could easily achieve this dream with just personality and popularity. He was clouded by this dream and became senile, which eventually led to the loss of his identity. The money itself stole Willy’s identity in which he became a “low-man” in the process of trying to achieve his

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

In Death of a Salesman, Willy often ruminated on his past and attempted to relive certain situations and experiences. This later developed into delusion, as Willy often talked to himself and experienced hallucinations. Willy also enjoyed bragging, and frequently edited parts of reality when recounting the past. This was in favor of portraying a certain image of himself. In doing so, Willy created a facade of the perfect and well-liked man. Willy’s stories become so convincing that his family, as well as himself, believe that this representation is, in fact a true depiction. The ideology that charisma is the driving force to success is derived from Willy; he teaches this to his sons Biff and Happy. Miller writes in Willy’s conversation to his sons, “Be liked and you will never want. You take me, for instance. I never have to wait in line to see a buyer. “Willy Loman is here!” That’s all they have to know, and I go right through.” (Death of a Salesman 21). This ideology demonstrates that Willy fits

he is now no longer able to experience and enjoy that freedom with Linda. It is immensely tragic that at the time when Willy and Linda should be happy, Willy chooses to kill himself. Willy spent his entire life trying to be successful, but he always viewed himself as a failure. However, at the end of the play, they had all of their house payments paid off. He actually was successful and did not know it.After working for so many years in a job that he was never suited for, Willy has finally paid of his mortgage. The irony is that now that he and Linda

Willy Loman is trapped in his life, often being suffocated by the things around him, but what is really trapping him in these “bricks and windows, bricks and windows” is himself. Willy is trapping himself from achieving success. In his head, success is thought as the same by everyone else in the society, to be rich, have kids, and a house. The reason why Willy himself can’t achieve it, is because of the things in his life happening around him that makes his mind think differently.

He wanted desperately to be successful, and for his sons to be successful too. He wanted it so badly that he lied about his sales, and pushed his sons to also lie about their success. Willy is obsessed with becoming financially stable, as the reader can see throughout numerous pages. Multiple times when Ben comes into the play there is talk about money. “William, when I walked into the jungle, I was seventeen.

When his fake dream of becoming a famous sales man back fired on him, he started to crumble and lose everything he had. Willy wanted to become a salesman because of David singleman who was a salesman who “died the death of a salesman, in his green velvet slippers” (Arthur Miller Act

In the play, after meeting a successful salesman, Dave Singleman, Willy said, “and when I saw that, I realized that selling was the greatest career a man could want. ‘Cause what could be more satisfying than to… be remembered and loved and helped by so many different people?” (1466). Willy idolizes and envies Dave’s fame and successful career. This is when Willy form his personal definition of the American dream. By becoming a salesman like him he attempts to imitate his success by being well-liked and important like Dave.

Here Willy actually brings up the death of a salesman and what it’s supposed to be like. According to him it’s supposed to be a huge event and that hundreds would be in attendance at the funeral. This is the way that Willy lives because of how far he’s decieved his own mind. He’s decieved himself into thinking that he was a well liked salesman and that he will die the death of a well liked salesman. It contradicts the way the he actually dies and that at his funeral no one came. Using Willy’s logic it could becuase he was fired from his salesmans position and is no longer entitled to the salesman funeral.

He created a vision of himself being a top of the line salesman, and that everyone knew of him wherever he went. His sons wanted to become like he appeared to be, and as a result, they did not figure out who they were. Finally, Willy’s madness lead to his fate which was suicide. Through all the years of deceit and guilt he could bear no more.

1. There are a good deal of metaphors in The Death of a Salesman. Willy is very confused and full of deficiency throughout the play. He really wants to give his family the life they deserve and that he never had. He feels that he has nothing to show from what his career once was.

Throughout Willy’s life, he has done nothing but fall short of his dreams. Willy is so focused on achieving his dream and being successful that he completely disengages from his family. He literally

She understands his dream, but also knows how unlikely it is to happen. Happy shares this dream of Willy’s, which will lead him down the same unsuccessful path as his father. He believes he can become the success his father wasn’t. Happy cannot see how this dream can only

In the play once Willy realises he has failed he puts all his hope in

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