How Is Willy Loman Responsible

In Death of a Salesman, by Arthur Miller, Willy Loman’s life seems to be slowly deteriorating. It is clear that Willy’s predicament is of his own doing, and that his own foolish pride and ignorance lead to his downfall. Willy’s self-destruction involved the uniting of several aspects of his life and his lack of grasping reality in each, consisting of, his relationship with his wife, his relationship and manner in which he brought up his children, Biff and Happy, and lastly his inability to productively earn a living and in doing so, failure to achieve his “American Dream”.

Loman has been unable to learn that business ethics, the morality of his work-community oppose the traditions he assumed were still in action: the personal ethics of honour. Willy also has his own, distinct perception of success. For him it is all about money and being "well-liked". That is how he saw Dave Singleman and assumed this was a perfect ideal of success, which he, himself, could achieve becoming a salesman. He imagines that pursuing the same career in the same merchandise field, he will be just like Dave Singleman: "Without ever leaving his room, at the age of eighty-four, make his living".

Willy Loman is stuck in the past because he believes that he is destined to live the “American Dream.” The basic idea of the “American Dream” is that America is the "dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement” (Adams 214). However this idea has unfortunately evolved to a more materialistic and superficial notion; which is what Willy wants for his life. As long as he is well liked by the public and

Willy Loman was a failure as a family man who never achieved the American Dream. His life is an example of a true downfall, which affects all of those close to him. By living in an illusion, Willy guaranteed that he would be unable to achieve all that he thought he should. As a result, his death is the final confirmation of his failed life. Truly, success could never be achieved in his life, even if he had made plenty of sales. By giving up his dreams and true desires, Willy Loman died long before he crashed his car, and that led him to become every bit the failure that he will

Willy Loman is a senile salesman who lives a dull life with a depleting career. He has an estranged relationship with his family and believes in the American Dream of effortless success and affluence, but in no way accomplishes it. Feeling like the aim of life is to be favored by others and gaining a materialistic fortune, Willy lives in a world of delusion where

Willy Loman, the central character in Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, is a man whose fall from the top of the capitalistic totem pole results in a resounding crash, both literally and metaphorically. As a man immersed in the memories of the past and controlled by his fears of the future, Willy Loman views himself as a victim of bad luck, bearing little blame for his interminable pitfalls. However, it was not an ill-fated destiny that drove Willy to devastate his own life as well as the lives of those he loved; it was his distorted set of values.

He then gouges out his eyes and wonders of into the desert (#4). Willy Loman is the son of a middle-class man. He has been working as a traveling salesman for the last forty years. This is not the life of nobility. Nobility is someone that is of a high social class. A nobleman could also be a person in a position of high authority. Willy Loman was a peon of the firm that he was selling for. At one point, he may have been respected, but that time has come and gone. Willy Loman was not endowed with a tragic flaw. His failure in life came from the pretensions of the American dream. All he wants in life was to support his family and see his sons be productive in life. This is at time in American society when many people essentially worked themselves to death. Society cannot be a character flaw, because it represents everyone, not just a tragic flaw in a single man (#1). One could argue that Willy Loman’s tragic flaw was his pride. This was one of Willy’s flaws, but it does not cause his death. His pride kept him from accepting the job that Charlie offered, but it did not keep him from borrowing money from him. The excessive pride flaw did not cause Willy Loman’s death. The cause of Willies death was his desire to provide for his family. This was the American dream at its worst (#1). Willy never realizes that he made a few irreversible mistakes. The first mistake was how he raises his sons.

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.

While Willy did a good job at recognising his problems, his solution was not the answer to them. This recognition and reversal was a tragic mistake Willy Loman

Although affluence and celebrity stock to him through his whole life, he is still in want of love.

Willy Loman is a man who has reached the age of 60 years old, but still working as a salesman. Willy became a salesman was about 36 years old. Willy is a person full of ambition is strong in him. In age has reached 60 years of age he still persist in being a salesman, and it's all because she has a big dream who wanted him to make it happen and him want to become a successful salesman with better life.

Willy Loman's Character Betrayed or Betrayer? Discuss theses two aspects of Willy Loman’s character and comment on how they affect both Willy himself and the other characters’ relationships with him. Betrayed or Betrayer?

-Willy Loman is a salesman who wants nothing more than the typical American Dream of riches, success, and luxury but never gets that. He doesn’t get along with his family considering they complain he is never home and he doesn’t think his kids will be successful in their lives. He’s a very insecure character who lets things get the better of him, and as reality

Written a few years after the end of World War II, Death of a Salesman provides a blatant, scathing criticism of American capitalist society, as well as the assumed “American dream.” Arthur Miller, being one of the most prominent authors to write so blatantly about the flaws of American society earned extreme praise after releasing Death of a Salesman. The ways that Miller identifies and illustrates these flaws of American society include Willy Lohman’s characterization and dialogue, as well as his brother, Ben’s decisions and characterization, and Happy and Biff Lohman and how they differ from each other. Analyzing these main identifiers of his criticism can aid in understanding Miller’s cynical approach to American society of the 1940’s,

Willy Loman’s feelings of alienation and loneliness are direct psychological results of his interaction with society and the conditions that are found within it.  Although, he does not necessarily have the ability or allow himself to have the ability to define his feelings as such, they are still very much a part of his everyday existence.  This is evident in his constant bragging and attempted compensation.  He does not feel that he is truly a part of society.  Indeed, he is not.  Miller himself seems to be saying that this is not necessarily a bad thing; this society is not that wonderful.  Yet Willy still yearns to be like his brother, Ben, and the other men he sees making