Flaw In Arthur Miller's Death Of A Salesman

In “Death of a Salesman” Charley, Willy Loman’s neighbor, seems to be one of the only characters who is emotionally and financially stable and sure of his life and the choices he has made. Charley serves as a foil for Willy, especially in this passage, in which Charley comes to Willy’s house at night seeing as Willy is also having trouble sleeping. His intentions are to lend some comfort to his neighbor and distract him with a game of cards. Charley (later revealed outside this excerpt) is Willy’s only friend and Willy borrows money from him a lot. He is aware of Willy’s failure and though he is not particularly fond of Willy’s erratic and defensive behavior.

Both characters in the stories fail to become rich and known. In the Death of a Salesman Willy didn’t make a lot of money with his job. In one part of the play he is talking to Charley, he is a different person who is offering Willy a job. In the text it

Willy 's issues with repression are consistently displayed in "Death of a Salesman". Willy represses recollections of poor times to when he was more delighted with his family. Moreover, Willy represses past choices and decisions that could have made his family more jubilant such as when he passed up a venture to Alaska with his brother to visit a diamond mine in which his brother gained a vast amount of riches from. Furthermore, Willy says many times that he had done well with his sales deals, however he is just repressing the fact that he comes back to his family empty handed.

In the play by Arthur Miller, the main character Willy Loman is a man in his 60’s. He is dressed in a drab coloured, ill-fitting suit. Willy shows early signs of dementia, as he spends much of the play having flashbacks or incorporating the past into present day situations. Through this the viewer learns much about Willy and his past. We learn that Willy is a salesman, who is has only had minor success. Willy blames this on the fact that he is not well liked. In the beginning of the play Willy has had a car accident and his wife Linda wants him to ask his boss if he can work only in New York instead of having to travel. When we see Willy in a flashback he appears to be happy and affectionate with his sons, who seem to return the affection.

In Arthur Miller’s play, Death of a Salesman, there is a constant theme of pride shown throughout. Pride is constantly brought up in various ways in the play and impacts the plotline greatly. Pride is a main point in two scenes in Act One; when Willy borrows money from Charley and won’t tell Linda and when Willy tells Biff to loan $15,000 instead of $10,000.

A tragic hero is a literary character that makes a judgment error that leads to his or her downfall. Traditionally, a tragic hero is reserved only for the elite, or noble members of society. However, Miller believes that the common man is equally subject to tragedy as the highest kings are. In The Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller portrays the protagonist, Willy Loman as a tragic hero. Willy Loman is a financially struggling man in his sixties looking for success for him and his family. Miller depicts Willy as a tragic character in his willingness to preserve his dignity. Additionally, Willy’s dignity is tainted in the story because of his flawed philosophy of the American Dream. This along with unjust comparisons leads to Willy’s death. Based on how Willy Loman evaluates himself unjustly, he is a tragic hero because he must do anything to preserve his dignity, and his false impression of the American Dream, which leads to his downfall.

While it is hard for Willy to be well liked there is one person throughout the entire play that he can count on and that would be Charley. Charley is Bernard’s father, but also someone who Willy can depend upon when needed. Charley has given Willy money numerous time, so that he can save him from the mortification of not being able to provide for his family. Charley also happens to be the only one who attends and pays his respects at Willy’s funeral. Having nobody there is a perfect example that Willy is not well liked and that he cannot live by the slogans he said all along.

Secondly, Willy’s refusal to accept reality that he is with his hands is doing cases him to do injustice to himself. In Willy’s conversation with Charley he boasts about his work around the house when asks “Did you see the ceiling I put up in the living-room?” (Miller 44) Willy is unwavering in his belief that he can only be successful by being a salesman and that a salesman is what he is meant to be. One can speculate that although he secretly enjoys working with his hands, he feels a labour-intensive job is beneath him and demeaning, which aligns with his lack of humility. This stubbornness allows him to maintain the fantasy in which his true talents do not exist as he continues to convince himself that he is satisfied being a salesman. Although Willy’s talents are unappreciated by himself, they are still noticed by others. In fact, during Willy’s funeral

Happy Loman is recognized by his excessive insecurity. He reliably depends on other individuals ' opinions to settle on his own decisions. In spite of his respectable achievements in business and the numerous, numerous indents on his bedpost, Happy is amazingly lonely. His dishonorable approach towards women makes him an immature man. The reason he 's so insecure is a result of the example his dad, Willy, set for him. Happy is continually taking after the feelings of other individuals. Whether it 's his dad Willy, or his mom Linda, he quite often ensures that his opinion happens in the meantime as others '. In spite of the fact that he is generally successful in his occupation, he has his father 's absolutely impractical self-confidence and

A classical tragic hero, or a shakesperean hero, is defined by a character with a high status who has a tragic flaw, which leads to their demise. Arthur Miller redefines a tragic hero, stating that a modern tragic hero, is but a common man, a wounded hero, with an unwillingness to settle for less.

What separates him from most, is in order to make himself happy, like Gatsby, he creates these lies that help him think that he is successful. An example of this is when he paints the illusion that his son was a big shot salesmen “ Well, Bill Oliver- very big sporting goods man- he wants Biff very badly…” ( Miller 70). In order for Willy to be a successful father, he needs to feel that his kids are respected and accomplished. However this shows that Willy is such an outsider, because Biff is quite the opposite, as the Bill Oliver that is references has no idea who Biff is. Another example that shows how Willy’s goals and dreams turn him into a misfit is when he asks for a promotion “ Well, tell you the truth, Howard. I’ve come to the decision that I’d rather not travel anymore.” ( Miller 59). In this instance Willy, under the delusion that he will get the promotion, and his kids will be getting their deal with Bill Oliver, tries to take the final step in becoming a successful father, which is partial retirement to full retirement. Since his whole premise of asking his boss is not reality he fails, which is why it is possible that both Gatsby and Willy failed because they were unwilling to forget the past. Another point that shows that Willy aspires to be what he cannot is that “Loman's dreams

This is where his reputation meant so much to him, because he wanted to be remembered. He had the mindset that he could achieve this and provide for his family and give them everything they want. As he gets older, having flashbacks and almost seeming crazy, his obsession with achieving the american dream is what leads to driving him to lose sight between his real life and his dream. Another thing he felt was abandonment after his father left him and ben when they were very young, and when biff didn’t live up to what his father expected him to be. This sense of abandonment also comes around with each of his failures. He sees one of his failures as not being able to raise his sons to be “perfect”, like when biff didn't becoming successful in business. He feels that biff is betraying him by not following out what he wanted, and it really takes a toll on Willy when Biff walks out on him after discovering Willy with another women. When this scene comes up in the movie, Willy feels like Biff betrayed him all based on that, while Biff feels betrayed because of the multiple times Willy lied to him and his

Even when his neighbour Charley offers him a job with a salary, Willy declines because he is too proud to work for Charley. He rather blames his failure on the superficiality of the business world and fixates himself on the idea that personality, not hard work, is the key to accomplishment. Perhaps, this is because Willy is living in a world where the pursuit of the American Dream is a predominant part of people’s lives, and the materialistic pressures of the superficial were beginning to permeate its actual values. Under this particular pressure, Willy has been fighting his entire life to achieve "the dream," but unfortunately, no one ever explains to him what its true values are or how to really make it. Therefore, Willy manages his life based on his overwhelming sense of pride and ambition, and in this way, Miller seems to criticize the idea of compromising happiness for success-- even though Willy truly believes that happiness is achieved through success. It is Willy’s blind faith in his ill-advised version of the American Dream that leads to his rapid decline, as he becomes unable to accept the disparity between his dreams and his own

Of Willy’s two sons, Happy is still infatuated with Willy’s dream. As he says, it’s the dream of being number one. Willy was never number one, nor did he ever really get close to being number one. In fact, for someone in Willy’s position this goal was quite impossible. Happy never

In the play the main character willy had trouble doing his job right. Willy was in a good mood, he woke up happy to go see his boss and ask for a job where he’ll stay in one place without having to travel but there were no jobs available, willy desesperante said “i 'm talking about your father! There were promises made across this desk! You 've shouldn’t tell me you got people to see…”(60). After this big fight with his boss he losses his job. A big sign of failure was written in willy 's life after losing his job because without a job he wouldn’t have any money to pay his insurance and neither the last payment of his house. Another example for willy 's failure is when he is starting to realize that people don 't actually take willy serious. After he got fired he noticed that he was losing popularity and the idea of success was betraying him.Willy needed money so he went to ask an old friend for money to pay his insurance. He got the money but also had a job offer but because he didn’t want to admit his failure he decided to say no. This shows how willy can not admit his failure to his family. The main character Willy doesn’t want to show how deeply down he had fallen and is starting to lose hope on his