Death of a Salesman Essays

Arthur Miller’s play Death of a Salesman addresses the loss of incapability to abide by change within himself. The story is a cutter of a dream, arguments, and memories of Willy Loman’s life. The story determines with Willy’s suicide and ensuing funeral. The story begins when Willy returns home very drained from his latest sales excursion. Willy loman is a salesman , who live in New York City. He lives with his wife named Linda in the same house for the last 25 years. The house of them was apart from the other homes and now it is surrounded by many buildings which makes Willy feel closed in. Willy is having complaints about attention driving and most often makes some mistakes when crossing the roads and he started talking himself to his wife. He is also concerned because his sons are not progressing in their business. His son Happy does have a high job and lives in his own apartment while his son Biff called him ‘lazy bum ‘ because he never makes much money. Willy has been disrated from a salaried employee to a commission rate at his job. This means he makes less money to support himself and his wife that’s the reason why Willy became so stressed that he begins to hallucinate because he’s not aware that it will happen to him.

Willy and Linda are full of hope for their family’s future, they didn’t give up because they believe that they will overcome all these trials and they become strong to face all of them. They are also hopeful about Biff and Happy future business. If Biff can receive the loan from his former employer, it means a bright future for them. Biff at age 34, needs to settle down and make a career. Willy struggles to reconcile memories from the past with the events of the present. Biff and Happy are surprised at the turn of the father but they had no idea about their father was behaving in this manner. Their mother tells them the car accidents when Willy was involved and are in fact attempts at suicide. The boys agree to try to stay closer to home and start a business together. So Biff decides to ask his former bull for a loan to help start the new business, their family did not try to give up easily, they wanted to recover their lives. Willy becomes so exhausted when he tries to talk to his boss Howard about the job change but his boss tells him he doesn’t have a position for him in the store. Willy needs to keep selling to the client in the New England area, Willy becomes angry with his boss and starts to yell at him after that accident, and Howard eventually has to fire him for being rude. Biff and Happy have plans to meet their father in a restaurant to celebrate the good news from the day, but instead of celebrating, it becomes bad news and Willy is not willing to accept the truth from Biff. The two boys meet some girls and left Willy alone in the restaurant which causes Willy to hallucinate about the woman he had used to cheat on Linda.

At their home, Linda is angry with her son for leaving their father at the restaurant, which causes Willy so much stress, but when they talk to each other Willy finally understands that his son loves him. Willy decides the insurance money of twenty-five thousand dollars would benefit his family. Willy talks to Ben and decides to kill himself. Linda his wife has a hard time accepting Willy’s death, she keeps on waiting for him to return from another business trip. She is sad and mournful, even though they finally paid for the house but the truth is she does not have a husband to share it with. The story shows how false perceptions of ourselves and others can bring about the ruin of a person. I could say that no matter how many problems you have, do not give up do not waste your life because you are just stressed, try to call to God and asks for guidance because he will never let us suffer. He will guide us to a better life.