Willy Loman

Unfortunately, for Willie, Biff is not entirely sure of the purchase he makes, evidenced by the dissatisfaction that Biff expresses with “what it takes to build a future” as a businessperson. When Biff converses with Happy about the career he wants, the reader discovers that Biff seeks a future that involves the great outdoors, not the confined existence of a businessperson. Instead of voicing his desires to his father, Biff keeps these thoughts to

He believes that Biff’s success would shroud his own personal failures and inability to succeed in life and takes pride in his success in trying to turn them into success, as seen when he was bragging to his brother Ben, “That’s just the spirt I want to imbue them with! To walk into a jungle! I was right!” However, in the end, Biff realizes his short comings and becomes consciences of the reality of their lack of ability for success and that their concept of the American dream is wrongfully misplaced. He even points this out to his dad, “Will you take that phony dream and burn it before something happens?” The topic of deception versus the reality is additionally clear in Willy's marriage. Without question, it is depicted in the play that Willy is unfaithful to his significant other, and even Biff winds up discovering him while cheating. In any case, Willy keeps up the appearance that he is always being straightforward and unwavering in his marriage. His better half, Linda does not know the truth of their marriage. In the end of the play, they realize the illusion under which the family was living and accept the truth. The Lowman family in the end finally accepts that they are not successful, nor of great importance However, Willy refuses to acknowledge this reality and completely reluctant to give up his dream, which in the end kills

Willy Loman desperately wants to believe that he has succeeded, that he is ‘well liked’ and a great salesman and therefore when he experiences his flashbacks he alters them to how he would have liked the situation to be- as a comfort so that he believes he not been a failure and a let down to the people around him. But as sixty- three year old man who is becoming weak and nearing retirement, Willy is viewed as a man who gave all of his life to a business, only to be thrown in the scrap-heap and as a house holder whose pattern of life was interwoven with instalment plans with which he could hardly catch up. If he was surrounded by a different community, Willy Loman might have been a content carpenter: he can put up a ceiling which his brother-in-law, Charley, lauds as a ‘piece a work’. Dreaming of retirement, Willy hopes to build guest houses on his yearned-for country land for Biff and Happy: ‘Cause I got so many fine tools, all I’d need would be a little lumber and some peace of mind.’ Throughout the play it is clearly evident to the audience that Willy Loman is a delusional individual who has built his life around deceit and lies: the American Dream.

Willy Loman is overcome with regret throughout the play. It seems that his biggest mistake ends up being the woman that he had an affair with in Boston. While Willy was still a travelling salesman, he went to Boston for business and met “the woman”. Throughout the play Willy has flashbacks of the one night he was with the woman and his son Biff came to visit him. Biff ended up walking into his father and this lady having an affair. It caused a lot of

Willy Loman is the centerpiece of all problems that arise in the Loman family from the “hell” Linda lives to Biff inability to find a place in the world. Willy is the victim of various flashbacks throughout the play, “Young Biff and Young Happy appear…” (Miller Act I: 1565). Due to the circumstances of Willy, the past is constantly regurgitated to his sons, specifically concerning how to where seemingly set up for fame. As such the boys specifically, Biff, are uncertain if they are content with what they are doing with their life and if it lives up to their father's expectations. Willy’s arrogant nature in trying to keep the past going is what ultimately lead to his demise.

Context: This excerpt happened a few lines into Act 1, scene 1 so the play had just started. Willy is a salesman with the widely-known and followed “American Dream”. The Loman family is a traditional American family in the 1950’s, The husband supports his family financially while the wife takes care of the children, keeps the house clean, and caters to her husband. Willy, the main character, struggles with his job and maintaining it, as well as struggling emotionally and mentally. In this passage, they are talking about how Willy had to come home early because he was so mentally unstable that he was spacing out while driving and he didn’t even realize where he was going.

The general theme of human condition regarding fulfillment, finding one’s true identity and “making it” rule over the hearts of men and women. Society preaches that life is all about the quick hits of what life has to offer; sex, drugs, and partying to numb the daily sufferings of life. Both Arthur Miller and artists John Givez and NF (Nathan Feuerstein) analyzes and proposes the answers to the question of the purpose of life and how one deals with rejection.

William “Willy” Loman is estranged businessman married to a beautiful Linda Loman; the two have two sons named Biff and Happy, the former of which is the oldest and idolized son compared to Happy, the younger of the two who is deprived of all attention. Biff and Happy both struggle with their ideas of what they want out of their futures and with Biff in particular, he struggles with Willy’s dream of wanting him to succeed him as a business man. Wanting to live a simple life, Biff wants to settle down and become a farmer as working with his hands is what makes him the happiest. Harold “Happy” Loman, the younger of the two brothers, wants to be Willy’s heir, the son that becomes a business man. Happy unfortunately becomes as manipulative and corrupt as his father in doing so; Happy, however, is neglected for the majority of the play and even looked down upon by his own mother, void of proper attention as Biff is the sole focus of Willy’s narrow mind. The major concept to grasp from this play is the idea of self-identification. Biff has already made up his mind about not wanting to be a businessman, but Willy refuses to accept Biff’s decision, let alone accept himself for his mental instability. Willy’s denial and delusion is so strong that his planned suicide was so that Biff could use the life insurance money to fund his business. A father could

Willy demands this narrow outlook of life success upon his sons. Not interested in the idea of starting a business like his father pressures him to, Biff fights for a simpler life, which ultimately causes Willy to hit rock bottom. Willy has a complete misconception of life, due to his incapability to come in touch with his intellectual side. Happy, who follows in his father’s footsteps unlike Biff, finds himself unhappy with his decisions.

The world is full of characters, which a variety of personalities that are walking around from the doer to the dreamer. One’s mindset makes up the core of which that person base their life off and around. This can be best see in the play Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller in castrating the main character Willy Loman to his neighbor, Charley. Both carry the same dream and goals, but Charley has succeeded thru a thought process of act first, were Willy is watching his life slip away because of his carry free mindset of which personality mean more than anything in life. These differences in ideas of how to run their life as placed each party in completely different lifestyle.

Willy Loman is a loving husband, a doting father, and an ace salesman: at least this is the image he portrays to others. However, a probe into the sundry layers of Willy’s personality expose a troubled man who could not live up to his preconceived personal measures of success. In the Arthur Miller play, “Death of a Salesman”, Miller creates Willy Loman, a seemingly ordinary, middle-class family man in the midst of a meltdown. Willy’s meltdown is fueled by the revelation that he is a failure in three major aspects of his life. The loving husband is actually a philandering adulterer; the doting father is really a meddling moron; and, the ace salesman is merely an unqualified, unlikeable businessman. Miller uses Willy Loman’s character to illustrate

Willie is a character who has a family that consists of his wife, Linda, and two sons, named Happy and Biff respectively. Throughout the play, the reader can acknowledge how the main character constantly brings his family down. One example is how adamant he is on achieving what he perceives to be the “American Dream.” His persistence only seems to cause anguish to Linda, Happy, and Biff, though his heart is in the right place. He wants

            Willy is the aging salesman whose imagination is much larger than his sales ability. Willy's wife, Linda, stands by her husband even in his absence of realism. Biff and Happy follow in their father's fallacy of life. Willy's brother, Ben is the only member of the Loman family with the clear vision necessary to succeed. Charlie and his son Benard, on the other hand, enjoy better success in life compared

Death of a Salesman is a play written in 1949 by Arthur Miller, the man who would later go on to write the Crucible. Arthur Miller based the character of Willy Loman off of his uncle, who was a traveling salesman and felt competitive with his own sons towards Arthur and his own brother. After bumping into Arthur in Boston, Manny shortly committed suicide. In his life, Arthur had known three people who had committed suicide and two of those were traveling salesman. Arthur was so passionate about this play that he had finished Act 1 in only one day, and Act 2 was finished six weeks later (“Death of a Salesman: Study Guide.”). This play, considered by many to be one of the greatest plays of the 20th century, has featured on Broadway for

The book Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller is an excellent book that I would recommend to anyone looking for some interesting summer reading book that they don’t mind being a bit depressing. The book is easy, but not at all boring, reading for anyone. The book is ideal for teens, but I would encourage anyone else who hasn’t read it yet to pick it up for that long car ride or flight during vacation. The story’s focus is on the main character, Willy Loman, and his final hours leading up to his death. Willy’s main conflict seems to be his self consciousness of his inability to provide for his family as other have for theirs. An example of this is when Willy compares himself to his more successful brother Ben, “Why didn’t I go to Alaska with my brother Ben that time!