A sense of living cannot be achieved, earned or find it is always only inside us.īiff and Happy live in the times where values are blurred and success equalizes to wealth. In his world, everyone should be happy while the methods are not important. The problem is that Willy cannot imagine any other picture of reality and cannot accept sufferings, doubts, and grief as a part of reality. In the same way, he always compares his sons with other people Biff and Happy reject his worldview but fail to create their own. He always compares different people, their talents, and achievements. What is even more tragic, he is a person totally isolated from himself. Like many other people, he was attracted by a picture of success that has nothing to do with reality. Willy is a typical person and a product of his epoch. The capitalist system not only exploits the people but impose the false picture of reality.

Willy does not realize what he is doing and what are the awful consequences of his suicide he believes that he takes care of his family and makes good in this way. It is a curse, which condemns his wife and sons to eternal suffering and blame. The worst thing is that Willy does not understand that his suicide makes his family leave with a feel of the blame forever. What is worse, he subordinated himself to one goal – to see his sons rich and respectable people while they try to escape the obligations the father tries to lay on them.Īt first sight, his suicide looks like a brave act, but in fact, we realize that is was a panic escape. He cannot adapt to these changes because accepting the reality means that his life was useless, which is highly traumatic for any person.

You may read about it in a detailed way here. Willy cannot accept the facts because his worldview is fully based on the values and beliefs that have lost its sense. In Death of a Salesman Willy is living in his own imaginary world ignoring the reality and any changes his death is the final chord in his escape. What is remarkable in Death of a Salesman (Linda Monologue)

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