An Honest Life In Arthur Miller's Death Of A Salesman

When Linda refers to Willy as a "little boat looking for a harbor," another wind blows against Linda, pushing her to act with pity (1247). To her, he is nothing more than a small, helpless old man. She blames the business for forgetting Willy in his old age, and passing him over like an orange peel. Toward the end of Act I, Linda presents a sorry image of Willy, describing his past greatness as a salesman and ending with a sad description of treachery. She tells her sons that Willy is "exhausted" from driving 1400 miles without earning a penny, and that his reward from the ones he loved the most, his sons, is spite and rejection (1237). The picture she paints of her husband is on filled with pity and sorrow.

Discrete — Linda was the only person that new Willy was suicidal which is mainly why she cares for him greatly however she was the reason for Willy’s death. If she would have told someone else Willy could have got the help he needed before he was driven to kill himself.

Consequences and stress are a common outcome of lies, yet people still commit them to deliberately hide the truth. “...Brad Blanton says you’re unnecessarily complicating your life.” Lies that are told often are intended to keep another’s feelings from being hurt, and in the end cause even more damage. Stress and other mental

Willy thought he was a failure to his family due to the fact that he couldn’t own a successful business. When really he was a failure because he never gave his family what they really needed which is a loving dad and wife. That just goes to show that if you have too much greed internal conflict will take over and will ultimately end you with failure. He also believed that his family would be better off with him dead considering that they would get life insurance money and wouldn’t have to live with his busness mistakes that he made in his

Willy also lies to Linda. We find out in the play that Willy is having

Linda had to talk to him in the book, and he told her to be quiet and he did not want to talk to her. When he found out it was about how she was pregnant and she was going to have it aborted, he was shocked, but not enough to stop her and talk about it. Willy always seemed to become mad at Linda for some reason. When she was making him breakfast, she asked him if he wanted something else, and he blew up and became mad at her. “Quote about willy and his breakfast” (Miller

Maybe if Linda had told Willy that she knew he was trying to kill himself, Willy would not have killed himself at the end of the play.

Willy’s self- image that he portrayed to others of being successful was a lie that he had lived with for so long

In the conversation with Linda and the boys, we also find out that Willy has attempted to kill himself. Linda tells the boys that a woman had seen Willy driving down the road, not that fast, when he deliberately smashed into the railing just as he came to a bridge. At first they didn’t believe this story to be evidence of their father trying to kill himself, but Linda wasn’t done. She continued to tell the boys “Oh, boys, it’s so hard to say a thing like this! He’s just a big stupid man to you, but I tell you there’s more good in him than in many other people.

Willy is thinking to himself that if the car could have been reliable, he would have been more successful and he could have been better liked. This thinking doesn’t hold up considering that the few weeks Willy has spent only to prove to be unsuccessful. This deterioration of Willy’s life bothers him that he is forced to lie to himself in order to deal with

During the story, I had the chance to witness how Willy slowly by slowly begin to lose himself and his mind in this materialistic life he has created for himself. It becomes clear that the only thing Willy desired and concerned about is keeping up with the people around him in terms of being financially success and possessions. Willy slowly realizes that the man he used to be his no longer that man, he no longer the respected man, he can’t really work or make the same amount of money anymore. Willy unwillingness to understand how everything could have gone so wrong for his sons, and he believes, and thinking that the world owed him for the person he used to prove that he wasn't able to change with society but instead he remains the same. Willy

In this case, Linda trusts her husband completely due to his demonstration of faithfulness (Miller 36). It is an illusion since Willy maintains a secret affair. Although Linda has no information about the cheating behavior, her belief in Willy demonstrates that she cannot differentiate reality from illusion in their relationship. Interestingly, Biff discovers his father’s irresponsible behavior but cannot gather the courage to inform his mother. In the play, Willy demonstrates his weakness by claiming that he is a successful

        Willy is like an impetuous youngster with high ideals and high hopes.  Children always have high hopes for their

For instance, he has this dream of having a big, spectacular funeral. In the end when Willy dies, at his funeral, Linda says, "Why didn?t anybody come?Where are all the people he knew?" (137). All his life, he holds on to this fantasy, but he never faces the reality of how he could have made it come true. It is his vision of the people of the past that lead Willy to follow a particular path, leading to his demise in the end.

He tries hard to avoid facing his failure by prohibiting her to “[mend] the stockings in [his] house” and demanding her to “throw them away”, or even tell her to stop doing so “at least while [he is] in the house”. Linda and the stockings are reminders of failure for Willy and thus he would rather live in his self-created delusion than being reminded of how incapable he really