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Immorality In Arthur Miller's Death Of A Salesman

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Some critics expand Ben’s public immorality to cover the personal and intimate aspects of his life. Apparently indifferent to social relationships, he needed neither the human warmth of the family nor society's positive response. His sphere of action related to things and quantities rather than people; even his seven sons seemed more like commodities than members of a family. (Jacobsen 250) This is inaccurate. It is Willy Loman, not Ben, who endlessly accesses things. “That is a one-million dollar idea! (Miller, 63). “Ask for fifteen. How much you gonna ask for? Willy literally attaches a numerical sum to his own life” “a man has got to add up to something” (Miller, 215). The audience never sees Ben in a context that would reveal if he appreciates

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