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This 3 page paper illustrates the ways in which Willy escapes from facing the reality of his true situation. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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become a nightmare of his own making, that the goals he has been pursuing for a lifetime have been the wrong ones. In fact, the goals that he has had,
have moved him from a true conception of what is real and what is false. Willys Loman is a prime example of a person who cannot deal with reality.
This pursuit of the wrong goals have adversely affected his sense of self, sense of worth, and sense of reality. In a final confrontation with his
son, Biff, he becomes acutely aware that his true treasure has always lain with his family, and in one last noble effort to continue to take care of them, commits
suicide(McIlroy 63, see also Klinghoffer). Willy Lomans life, the audience is led to believe, has been one long string of failures. He is also stuck in a never-ending loop that
leaves him wondering how anyone so well liked with so many contacts could not be successful. He is not willing, or arguably able, to embrace the reality of the fact
that he was never as big as he thought he was in his own mind. "Hes a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a
shoeshine ... A salesman is got to dream, boy," says Charley, a friend of the family. Willy sees the image of himself coming apart at the seams and he is
no longer able to make sense of the false image he has spent a lifetime weaving for himself. Losing his job, then, is the final catalyst that moves him toward
the only viable option he feels is left to him: death. As the play opens he has returned home to his family and for perhaps the first time has begun
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