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A 3 page essay that discusses the character of Willy Loman from Arthur Miller’s play “Death of a Salesman,” in which Willy is portrayed as having a false and shallow sense of values. He has cheated on his wife and conveyed his superficial, impractical and false value system to his sons, which serves as a factor that has obviously had serious negative effects on their lives. Nevertheless, Willy is a sympathetic, tragic character who creates pity in the hearts of the audience. Miler accomplishes this effect by taking the audience into Willy’s thoughts, which subtly explore his past and the forces that shaped his personality. No additional sources cited.
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on his wife and conveyed his superficial, impractical and false value system to his sons, which serves as a factor that has obviously had serious negative effects on their lives.
Nevertheless, Willy is a sympathetic, tragic character who creates pity in the hearts of the audience. Miler accomplishes this effect by taking the audience into Willys thoughts, which subtly explore
his past and the forces that shaped his personality. The surface action of the play concerns the final days of Willys life. He is around sixty years old and
feeling his age. Throughout his adult life, he has worked as a traveling salesmen and been constantly traveling. The opening of the play shows him at home in Brooklyn, New
York. He had to return home because he lost control of his car while attempting to travel to New England, which is his sales territory. Both Willy and Linda, his
wife, hope that his boss will offer Willy a desk job in town but it soon becomes clear that Willys usefulness as an employee is over and he will be
discarded like as if he were trash. Miller dramatizes Willys memories of the past and the play moves back and forth through time, allowing the audience to view the
major events that shaped his life. This shows that, from early childhood, Willy had no father figure on which to base his ideas of what means to be an adult.
He has no firm foundation on which to build his sense of himself as an adult male. Willy remembers how he once he pleaded with his older brother Ben (who
is successful and everything that Willy hoped to be) to please stay at his home a little longer. He tries to explain, saying, "Youre just what I need, Ben, because
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