Underpinning this is the fact that Willy Loman is unsure of his actions and destiny and that he deludes himself in order to disguise this. The construct of Ben, who is never confirmed as existing except through Willy's eyes, emphasises just how removed from reality Willy has become and how he is determined to see the world as he imagines it, not as it really is.
He is, as Biff says a man who "had the wrong dreams" and it his failure to see that his dreams are wrong, his failure to fully understand why they are wrong and to therefore achieve anagnorisis, that is the chief failure of Willy Loman's life. Get Full Access Now or Learn more. See related essays. Miller describes the salesman's house as "fragile" surrounded by "towering, angular shapes" symbols of capitalism , yet "an air of the dream clings to the place.
Perceptions of the American dream are usually framed in terms of American capitalism, and the freedoms guaranteed by the U. Bill of rights" "I'll get out. I'll get married and live some place else"p Freedom "I want a family, I want some kids, I want to build something I can. He has a very low self esteem and the only person that really doesn't love him is himself. Willy had great goals ideals in practice, but the only thing that he didn't realize is that if he didn't achieve those goals it wouldn't be the end of the world.
Biff realises that he is NOT a salesman and that the Loman family are just ordinary men, "I'm a dime a dozen" pg Men that could be happy if they were just honest about who they were accepted who they were, and who, if they used their true skills. To Miller, the cipher of Willy was a noble man because he worked hard towards his dream, even if it was somewhat misguided and superficial, and ultimately his only flaw was that of self delusion.
I feel that Willy longs for popularity and to be well liked more than that of being a salesman. He feels that a good personality and good appearances are the way to succeed in this world and this alone can help a man achieve his dreams, "Because the man who. Linda-"That all these accident in the last year - weren't - weren't - accidents. He had material wealth as well as popularity in society, something Willy had all his life wanted and craved for it,?
Want to read the rest? Sign up to view the whole essay and download the PDF for anytime access on your computer, tablet or smartphone. Don't have an account yet? Create one now! Already have an account? Log in now! Ultimately, in Willy living to satisfy a dream, which was not his own, led to, unhappiness to both, him and his family, and in time eventually, his death. Many occurrances highlight society's judging of Willy, including him being fired, the "spite" that he recieves from his sons, and the way he alienates himself.
All of these eventually lead to the downfall of a strong, determined, but confused character. Perhaps the most defeating action that happened to Willy was the loss of his job. All he had ever been in life was a salesman, therefore it was the only trade that he was any good at.
When he had the conference with Howard, he had his hopes up. Despite Troy? The inheritance of this angry behavior was, in turn, the cause of his damaging relationships with his own family. Just as Troy endured his father? He overlooks Cory? Open Document. Essay Sample Check Writing Quality. Willy Loman is a 60 year old senile salesman who desperately wants to be a successful salesman; however, his ideas about the ways in which one goes about achieving this are very much misguided, just as his morals are.
He believes that popularity and good looks are the key to achieving the American dream, rather than hard work and dedication. He not only lives his entire life by this code, but instills his delusional beliefs in his two sons Biff and Happy. As a result, his sons experience similar failures in their adult lives.
Willy led a life of illusion, lies and regret which not only ruined his life, but gad a negative impact on the lives of family as well. He's losing popularity if he ever had it , and his whole idea of what it takes to be successful is betraying him. He feels as if he has worked hard to become well liked, but now he is ignored and laughed at. People don't take him seriously. Who wouldn't feel like a failure in that situation?
Failure 5: Willy laments the missed opportunity of going to Alaska with his brother, Ben who struck it rich, but in Africa, not Alaska. When Hap tries to comfort Willy with the promise of retiring him for life, Willy criticizes him because he doesn't make enough money to do that. Willy, a traveling salesman, can't even drive himself to the sales appointments he is able to make. Hap is a failure because he can't keep his word, and Willy is a failure because he can't do his job.
Failure 6: Willy is a failure when compared to his father. Ben asserts that he could sell more in a week than Willy could in a lifetime. Willy, when measured against Ben, doesn't fare much better, because Ben was rich by the time he was twenty-one. Failure 7: Linda tells the boys that Willy has been demoted to merely earning commission on what he sells like a beginning salesman , and he can't make sales anymore because all his contacts are dead or retired. She is angry because he's tried so hard to support the boys, and now that he's failing at his job, he needs their support, and the boys are choosing to look the other way.
Failure 8: Willy, after getting in an argument with his boss, gets fired, which means he has no way to pay his insurance or his last payment on the house. He's a complete failure now. His final contact and claim to fame was his friendship with Wagner's late father, but even Wagner doesn't give that much consideration because it probably wasn't true. But whether Wagner's father and Willy were great friends, the fact remains that Willy hasn't been able to do his job, so he loses it.
Willy has no contacts, nor is he well liked. Failure 9: Willy keeps thinking about how Biff failed math, and he believes that's when Biff's life was ruined. If he hadn't failed math, he would be successful by now. Failure Biff tells Willy that they're both ordinary men, common, just like everyone else; this is not such a terrible thing in Biff's eyes, but for Willy, being ordinary is equivalent to failure.
He wanted to be the best of salesmen, and he pretended that he was. Willy realizes that his own son knows that he's a fake, and that Biff's wish is only to confront the truth and be an ordinary man. This is the summit of his failures. Willy can think of only one way to prove that he's not a failure: suicide. Failure Willy expected the funeral to be packed because he was so well known and well liked. His funeral would prove to Biff that his father's life was worth something, but it doesn't turn out this way.
The only people at Willy's funeral were his family, Charley, and Bernard. Although Willy aspired to be like Dave Singleman a revered salesman , it didn't work out that way, and Willy Loman died a failure by his own standards.
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