In Death of a
Salesman, we meet the Loman Family. There is Willy, the traveling
salesman, Linda, the stay at home wife and mother of Biff and
Happy. We learn about who the characters are and what the Loman
family goes through. We see that the main character Willy is all
about being successful. He is all about making money and being
popular. He is trying to instill the idea of the American Dream and
success into Biff and Happy. We learn about the life of Willy and
his journey through his sales and home life.
Throughout the story, we meet the main character Willy. He is
an ordinary man who is a traveling salesman. He believes that he is
really successful in his sales, but at his age, we see that he is
not really capable to be successful anymore.
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Throughout the
play, we begin to see all of the lies that he tells. Willy was
insecure. In order to make him feel good about himself, he lies to
his
familyand
himself. Willy is not a very well-liked salesman. Hes not even
good at what he does. He tells his boss and his family that he is
doing well and selling a lot, but in reality, he is lying to make
himself seem well-liked. He wants to be successful. He cant come
to tell himself the real
truth. He knows
the truth, but he does not want to believe the truth. One day, he
travels to Boston to look for a new job. The night while being in
Boston, he has an affair with a woman. His son, Biff travels to
Boston to see him. Biff happens to come at a bad time. He discovers
that his dad is having an affair and gets mad, resulting in himself
leaving. At this point, he now considers his dad to be fake and a
liar. Biff and Willy both know about the situation, but neither of
them come to tell Linda, Willys wife. He has make people think
that everything is going well and that he is still making money,
even though he loses his job. After losing his job, he is away from
home a lot to make people think that he is still working hard and
that he is high up in the business
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He believes
highly in the American Dream. He is all about working and being
successful. He wants to show people that he is well-liked and to
show his two sons, Biff and Happy that he is successful. He wants
his sons so be successful so he is trying to show them how hard
working he is. He raises Biff and Happy to be part of the American
Dream. As you later see, Biff is not successful like he was brought
up to be. Biff was a thief and couldnt hold any jobs. Happy was
just like Willy he had a job, but it was mostly all talk. Willy is
just a strong believer in that success and popularity will always
result in happiness. He instilled in his sons that big business and
money was the main focus. He taught them the wrong idea of the
American Dream. Willy influenced his sons in a bad way. Willy
always told people that he was better and wealthier than he
actually was and carried onto Biff and Happy. When will would ask
them how their jobs are going and how much money they are making,
they both say that they are doing good and making money. In
reality, they are like Willy, pretending that they are more than
they actually are. Will lied to everyone about how much he made
because he wanted to please everyone. Biff eventually realizes that
in order to be successful, it requires working at a job that makes
you happy. The other son Biff still thinks that wealth and
popularity are the focus in order to be successful. Willy was
seeing and instilled the wrong way to
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