Wendell's Short Story

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.

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Toward the end of the story, Willy realizes that his life is falling apart: Biff does not have a stable job or family, is making only commissions for his job, his refrigerator and car are in despair, and he talks to himself. Willy just cannot figure out what has gone wrong, especially with Biff who to him seemed so promising because of his good looks and his charm with others. When Biff comes home again, Willy gets real nervous and starts talking to himself (Act I. Scene I). He is stressed out that Biff has done nothing with his life so he starts seeing visions of the past. When Willy talks out loud while seeing visions, he is trying to discover where he went wrong as a person and father. To find where he went wrong he begins to ask anyone in visions or in person. One character that he frequently asks for advice throughout the drama is his older brother Biff (Gross, 319-321).

Happy and Biff Loman were both brought up holding Willy in the highest regard. This is likely because as children they learned their Willy told them things such as “[America’s people] know me, boys, they know me up and down New England… ‘cause one thing, boys: I have friends” (31), which was met with an enthusiastic “Yeah! You bet!” from both Happy and Biff (31). Later on in life, Happy’s massive reverence for his father is due to a lack of attention during his childhood.

Willy was illusive thinking that he was good enough to get a better a job, instead he end up looking as a

Willy was a stubborn man that was possessed by extreme pride. Charley offered him a job when he came into his office nearly begging. Charley tried explaining some points of the business world, explaining that being liked is not an issue. Willy really had no idea how the business world worked. He thought if one was liked, no problems would arise.

After the boys abandon their father in a restaurant for dates with women they have picked up, she fiercely attacks both of them: "You're a pair of animals! Not one, not another living soul would have had the cruelty to walk out on that man in a restaurant!" (98). Linda knows her Willy is a common man and as good as many other people. She thinks he deserves at least the respect of his own sons: "Attention, attention must finally paid to such a person !" (40). Perhaps Linda expresses the idea that Miller suggests us to think about. On the contrary, when Willy cannot stand the bitterness of the reality, he goes back to the past and Charley appears in his mind: Schneider "the technique of psychic projection, of hallucination, of the guilty expression of forbidden wishes dramatized." (252) On one hand, Charley stands in contradiction to everything Willy believes in. He knows what Willy was in the past. He even tries to make Willy a man of success and thereby restore Willy's dignity. His humanity and lack of illusion enable him to penetrate Willy's mind and points out Willy’s weak points: "Why must everybody like you? Who liked J. P. Morgan? Was he impressive? In a Turkish bath he'd look like a butcher. But with his pockets on he was well liked" (75). He is stern about Willy's low standard of fair play, and impatient with his childlike dreams, urging Willy all

This is what Willy has been trying to emulate his entire life. Willy's need to feel well-liked is so strong that he often makes up lies about his popularity and success. At times, Willy even believes these lies himself. At one point in the play, Willy tells his family of how well-liked he is in all of his towns and how vital he is to New England. Later, however, he tells Linda that no one remembers him and that the people laugh at him behind his back. As this demonstrates, Willy's need to feel well-liked also causes him to become intensely paranoid. When his son, Biff, for example, is trying to explain why he cannot become successful, Willy believes that Biff is just trying to spite him. Unfortunately, Willy never realizes that his values are flawed. As Biff points out at the end of the play, "he had the wrong dreams."

The most important quote in the story is when Happy says about Willy, “He’s never so Happy as when he’s lookin forward to something.” Willy’s spirit decline when he has nothing to look forward to, in effect, causes him to have flashbacks. For example, when he is in the restaurant expecting big news from Biff, he is all together and happy about the fact that the news will fullfill his

Willy also has strong feelings toward appearances. He even goes so far as to tell his kids “That’s why I thank Almighty God you’re both built like Adonises. Because the man who makes an appearance in the business world, the man who creates personal interest, is the man who gets ahead. Be liked and you will never want” (1594). Even Willy’s views of himself are romanticized; he thinks he is essential to his job, even though we soon find out that he isn’t. He goes on and on to his sons about how much people like him, and how he has so many friends and so much respect everywhere he goes.

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

When the boys are in they are in their 30's, Willy focuses on the past, too mentally ill to think of Happy or his feelings. Happy spends most of his life in the shadow of his brother. Nothing Happy did is ever good enough for Willy and Happy don't truly get to know each other. As shown in the text after Willy's death when Happy is speaking of memories of his father.

Another example of Willy’s sufferings was when he lost his job. For instance, Willy is dissatisfied with his career and decides to ask his boss Howard to work in the town instead of traveling for work from New York to New England every two weeks. Howard ends up saying “there just is no spot here for you” (Miller 56) and ends up firing him. Although Willy had a long career with the company and was very productive, Howard let him go. Willy defends himself by saying “I put thirty-four years into this firm, Howard, and now I can’t pay my insurance!” (Miller 57). Howard fires Willy at a time when he was most desperate. This shows the “change in the hero’s fortunes” (Nardo 73). Regardless being fired from his job, Willy still had hopes for his sons Biff and Happy to start a new business. Things did not go according to the plan and the business ends up not happening which causes Willy to suffer even more. Willy goes through financial troubles which prevent him to achieve the American Dream, keep his job, and provide for his family. These are all signs of disappointment and

The play begins with Willy as the antagonist, fighting with his wife Linda and a generally mean person. He insults his sons and scolds Linda for buying the wrong cheese. Willy shows his biggest personality flaws early on in the story; contradicting his own thoughts, being verbally abusive, and showing his over developed sense of pride. Willy loses

I have read the Hardy Boys The Tower Treasure by Franklin W. Dixon. The Hardy Boys were delivering paper for their dad on their motorcycles. a blue car went flying by and then it went flying by again. They climbed the hill next to them and delivered the papers. They were going to Chets house to say hi, and they saw the blue car had crashed into a ditch there was no one in the car. They went down Chets driveway and saw that Chet was sad; the man had stolen Chets yellow car. Chet and the Hardy Boys went around town asking if anyone say a yellow car go bye. Their friend Callie who had a cake in her hand said Chets yellow car was going so fast that it scared her and she dropped the cake. The Hardy Boys went to the police station to see if the Chief knew anything. Once they got there, they saw that their rival detective, Detective Smuff was there with a man that worked at a ticket both. They were reporting a man in Chets yellow car had attempted to rob the ticket booth. The next day the boys were on the case and they had called in a couple of their friends to help. They all split up to look for clues and at the end they would meet at the park. At the park they ate and took a nap once they woke up they looked in the last place it could have been in, in.