Willy Lowman is the main character in death of a salesman by Arthur miller and it follows the last twenty four hours of his life. Through out the play we see Willy's decent into mental instability because he becomes very distressed by his sons biff and ha

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Willy Lowman is the main character in death of a salesman by Arthur miller and it follows the last twenty four hours of his life. Through out the play we see Willy’s decent into mental instability because he becomes very distressed by his sons biff and happy but mainly biff because he would life nothing more than for them to succeed which he believes is a sure thing in such a society in American this is one of the major themes in this play the American dream and Willy’s addition of it is that you can be successful if you are ‘well liked’ as he likes to often repeat to his sons biff and happy.

Willie Lowman is a character that most anyone can identify

with. He has two sides to his life; On one side he creates

an image of being successful, well liked, and bold. On the

other side he feels old, unsuccessful, defeated and

disliked. He maintains the successful image to comfort his

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wife and friends. This veil of success becomes thinner and

thinner until he lingers between fantasy and reality of the

cruel world, often changing back and forth in the course of

a conversation. The core of Willie^s slow painful demise

into nothingness is based upon his beliefs. Willie thinks

that success is not what you know, but who he knows and how

well he is liked. These beliefs he instills in his sons,

who find themselves adrift and meaningless just like their

father. In addition Willie sees the world changing, and his

own inability to change with it, will seal ...

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