Willy Loman

In the play, Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller, the character Willy Loman is an elderly man whose mental health is in an unstable state. After researching some mental illnesses, it is certain that Willy has dementia; Willy is displaying behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia in the play. Willy Loman is suffering from dementia, resulting in the deterioration of the family dynamic; therefore, excusing his treatment of his family.

Many of the characters in the play are stuck playing a comedic role or a dramatic role, but Flute is one of the characters that gets to play both, again, making him a much more rounded character. Playing the part of Thisbe requires

We are first introduced to Willy Loman at age 60 as he returns home early from a sales trip. This is also where we get the initial glimpse of Willy’s dementia as he tells Linda, his wife, what happened during his trip. Willy’s two sons, Biff and Happy, are also present in another part of the house trying to ignore what is happening downstairs. The first backwards slide into memory that takes place not only reinforces that Willy is dealing with dementia, but also highlights the weak moral character he possesses. As the play continues, both the dementia and weak moral character are highlighted in Willy’s own experiences and memories along with being reflected in both sons in separate ways.

This piece begins with a pickup by the flute, who leads the A melody into the first section. After 8 bars, the strings and harp enter (0:27) while the flute starts to repeat the beginning of the A melody. However, three bars into this repetition, the melody changes, though the instrumentation does not (0:35). The flute slowly inches towards the peak of its melodic shape until it reaches it at (0:48). The flute then fades out as the strings flesh out the rest of the 8-bars.

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

This modernized tragedy, Death of a Salesman, illustrated the last days of life for poor Willy Loman. Realistic dramas, emotionally, physiologically, and spiritually, this action-filled play occurred in the present. When the play goes back into the past, it makes the audience feel as if they have drifted into the past, almost like a dream. In some of the scenes, Biff and Happy appeared as if they are in high school, but only their father, Willy, can see them. This method is often referred to as using a flashback. Using this “flashback” method, Willy’s older son, Ben, makes an appearance as well, and this is whom Willy turns to for advice and talks to when he becomes lonely. This play is not only complicated because it goes back and forth from the present and past, but because it shows all the betrayal in Willy’s life and all of the lies he told. As a woman, it is easy for us to point fingers at Willy and say that it is all his fault, but that is just a feminist point of view.

The play, "Death of a Salesman", by Arthur Miller, is a tale about a man who is not able to accept the changes that are happing around him. The main character, Willy Loman, loses his identity when he is stuck in a dead-end job and is unable to provide for his family. He is not able to accept the changes that are happening around him and tries to escape into his memories and his messed-up sense of reality. The play is filled the struggles he faces with his family and himself. It explores how far a man's delusions can destroy his since of reality and does around him, as well as his inability to accept change.

In Death of a Salesman, Willy’s obsessive relationship with reliving the past causes spiraling problems when he recounts how his life lost all potential. This play mainly takes place in Brooklyn, New York and revolves around Willy Loman, a traveling businessman. He lives with his wife Linda, but his two sons, Biff and Happy are visiting him when these certain memories are relived. As his physical health is deteriorating, Willy takes this time and mindset to reflect on his failures. All his life Willy has been a dreamer, yet he never follows through with his hopes. This leaves him in a very vulnerable state full of disappointment and loss, especially because his attempts to make his son Biff be better than his father do not succeed. Throughout

Literature has often been used to explain problems within society. This can be seen in Arthur Miller’s play Death of a Salesman. Arthur Miller’s play was set in the late 1940’s in a post World War II economy. Willy and Linda Loman and their two sons: Biff and Happy, live in Brooklyn, New York and are the main characters. Death of a Salesman discusses the life of Willy and the struggles he goes through everyday.

In Arthur Miller’s novel, Death of a Salesman, he writes about a salesman and his relations with his family, friends, and his job. Miller argues that Willy Loman is a tragic hero, for he failed to make friends, be a successful businessman, and a good husband/father due to his appalling attitude toward others and his hubris, or excessive self-pride. He interacts with people in the present, along with having flashbacks and talking to himself, trying to interact with the ones that are in his flashback. He sees himself as a well-known and a hardworking salesman, but in reality, he is uncharismatic, contradicting, and an overall failure of a man.

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

“Every father should remember that one day his son will follow his example instead of his advice” -Dave Mcshay. This idea leads in perfectly with the play “The Death of a salesman” by Arthur Miller the idea of a greater understanding within the story arises. The play is set in Brooklyn New York in a small house that presents a seemingly happy and untroubled family. Biff is great at sports during high school, a student everyone admires, the man of the hour, is set into a scenario that he never wishes he for. His father Willy Loman is a businessman who travels all around the country, is a hard worker, unloyal husband and also a man that is ill-minded. He sees vision, flashbacks, recurring forgetfulness and slowly loses his mind

In the story “Death of a Sales Man,” Willy Loman is a man who wants the best for his family but goes about it in all the wrong ways. The society Loman lives in believes every house hold should have certain luxuries. These luxuries that he craves end up being his reason for all his troubles. Loman is all about success and appearances. He is someone who is concerned with being well-liked as he also wants his sons to share his beliefs that he holds.

Linda is the heart of the Loman family and devotes to her time to her family, especially to her marriage with Willy who is difficult to deal with. She loves Willy unconditionally and defends him at all costs. She easily chooses him rather than her sons, when it comes to arguments between then men of the house. Not to mention, she goes along with Willy in his delusional moments and fantasies of grandeur (“Death of a Salesman”). For instance, as Willy explains to Linda how he suddenly could not drive anymore, Linda states, “Maybe it was your steering again… Maybe it’s your glasses. You never went for your new glasses” (Miller, 13). Linda constantly finds excuses for Willy when she knows that he is suicidal and irrational because in order to protect him from the criticism of others. Furthermore, “…selflessly subordinating herself to serve to assist…” ("Death of a Salesman Themes") Willy’s needs. In comparison, the prostitutes are two young women whom Biff and Happy meet at Frank’s Chop House while waiting for their father. Miss Forsythe and Letta provide character and plot development when Happy showers compliments on Miss Forsythe such as, “You ought to be on a magazine cover” (101). At this point, the theme of deception and lies is emphasized. Happy lies to the women so that he lures her into entertaining him and his brother for the evening. As a result, the prostitutes go off with the men to assist to their sexual needs and

This Contrasts Millers use of this dramatic technique as “The Harmonious Flute” is used to obscure Willys sense reality, in contrast to Williams use of it to identify Blanches reality. Unlike Blanche, Willy is compltetly oblivious to the truth and resides to his memories to conceal himself away from the reality that the American dream has failed him. The flute is reminiscent of Willys past and often symblozies when Willy is reminscing becasue he is unable to bare the truth that his American dream is failing. This shows that Willy is unable to deal with the truth due to the false reality that the maerican dream has presented him with and made him beliveing into. The best example of this is the tape recorder which Willy accodentally sets in motion. In its “shrieking”, unpleasent tones of a child recounting phrases, we see how awful it is for Willy to have to live an accurate account of the past such as this. This is a vivid expression of his unconscious desire to repress the truth. This is proven even before the start of the play where the first stage directions should indicate “a dream rising out of reality” Thurther emphiseing Milliers critic throughtout the entire play.