Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman is a portrait of a man who wrestles with his own delusions of success and happiness within the business world. One of the main themes of the story is how the main character has attached his success and failures in other areas of life to his self-image as a salesman. Because Willy Loman is unable to find the answer to his hopes and dreams outside of his working life, he feels similar desperation within his job environment as well. This reflects my personal experience of trying to find the satisfaction for certain artistic desires through a mundane, noncreative work environment.
[...] Willy Loman and the death of an American dreamer Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman is a portrait of a man who wrestles with his own delusions of success and happiness within the business world. One of the main themes of the story is how the main character has attached his success and failures in other areas of life to his self-image as a salesman. Because Willy Loman is unable to find the answer to his hopes and dreams outside of his working life, he feels similar desperation within his job environment as well. [...]
[...] This psychological “baggage” is a common example of how a person can attach their personal emotions about life to their attitude toward the business world and the role they play in it. Because Willy is unable to find fulfillment through his work life, he finds no motivation to participate in the rest of his life. His tendency to constantly contradict himself is a symptom of his sickness of self-deceit. Because Biff is both lazy and hard worker,” he is neither, and there is difficulty in establishing exactly what Willy actually thinks about his son (21). [...]
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