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Life is full of surprises; rarely does one go through life not having some kind of personal conflict mental or psychological. These conflicts come in all forms, from awakenings, discoveries, and changes in consciousness to greater problems such as evasion, abuse, and depression. The manners in which these conflicts are dealt with vary greatly as do our problems. For some it is hard to come to realization with their problems, this is the case of Willy Lowman the lead role in Arthur Miller?s play Death of a Salesman. In the play, Willy is an aging salesman who is coming to realization that his life hasn?t taken him exactly where he wanted to be. Willy never tries to help his present circumstances but only flees them by recalling better times in the past when his predicaments were few. The use of evasion as a tool to flee problems begins to affect Willy like an addictive drug and as the play progresses the audience soon discovers the lethality of that drug.
Willy?s first dose of his evasion is when his son Biff returns home from out west. While discussing with his wife Linda his disappointment in Biff, Willy is unable to cope with the realities of his son Biff?s few accomplishments. Willy resorts to evading these disappointments in Biff and returning in his mind to an auspicious time when things were more favorable for him and his family. Although remembering the ?good old days? is something perfectly normal to do, it is important that we don?t let those better memories shelter us from our current problems. However, this is exactly what Willy fails to do; never does he return to his original problem, he just goes on like it never surfaced.
As the play progresses Willy becomes more addicted to his drug. The next time he heads to his safe haven of evasion is during another conversation with his wife Linda. Willy is in low spirits and begins self-criticism; he moans that he cannot move ahead in life because people do not like him. He also complains that he talks too much and how he believes people laugh at him for being too fat. Willy is beginning to see some truth in life "I know it when they walk in. They seem to laugh at me."(Pg. 23) Once he begins to see the reality of his life not living up to his dreams Willy enters his safe heaven. Willy thinks of ?The woman?, his mistress, he recalls a time where she does her ?job? by telling him how great he is, reassuring him of his great character and his good looks. When she accomplishes her task in his flashback, poof the woman vanishes, and his flashback is over. Willy is left falsely satisfied, but in good hopes and carries on with his day. Once again his miracle drug evasion rescues him from dealing with the realities of life.
After his last flashback Willy has become more confident, even to the point that he is full of himself. Willy goes to see his boss, Howard, in hopes of being appointed a local job allowing him to stay at home and to be relived of the traveling salesman title. Howard ends up firing him that day and Willy is forced to see the reality. By loosing his job Willy is brought to an all time low, so severely that Willy needs an immense dose of his drug like never before. Willy thinks of the best day in his life, the day Biff played in the All Scholastic Championship Game. This was a point in life when Willy?s pride in his sons had swelled to an all time high and all was in good hope, so much that Willy believed that his sons would live great lives from that day on. But suddenly Willy's swollen bubble of pride for his sons is unexpectedly deflated that same day when Biff forces him to see the reality of his shortcomings in life. The pressure begins to mount minute by minute and Willy?s need for his drug is increased, he can no longer cope with his problems and there is nothing left to run to and hide behind, at this moment Willy is hit hard as all of his problems have caught up to him.
Willy soon finds out, using too much of something, even a good thing, eventually becomes a bad thing. This is shown in his next flashback when Willy?s use of evasion backfires in his face, forcing himself to see painful realties in his life. In this particular flashback, Willy is taken back to the most disgusting point of his life, when Biff finds out about ?The Woman?, and he finds out that Biff has flunked math. The audience has now been exposed to the very moment that had started Willy?s depression and downward spiral. Since this point is now unveiled, and there are no happy memories left for Willy to take refuge against, Willy no longer has anyone/anything to run to. With his last hit of ?the drug? used, where else can he flee to?
It is sad yet ironic that Willy?s drug of evasion never really ended up helping him; it only gave him a false sense of happiness until his problems were given a chance to catch up again. Miller's intention in this play is to show through Willy Loman a major flaw in many people's character: that people tend to run from their problems, rather than taking care of them right then and there. By running from your problems you only set you up for a greater collapse for yourself when things finally catch up and hit you all at once. This is exactly what happened with Willy Loman, and in his case he couldn't handle the realties of life all at once and in the end it literally killed him.
Life is full of surprises; rarely does one go through life not having some kind of personal conflict mental or psychological. These conflicts come in all forms, from awakenings, discoveries, and changes in consciousness to greater problems such as evasion, abuse, and depression. The manners in which these conflicts are dealt with vary greatly as do our problems. For some it is hard to come to realization with their problems, this is the case of Willy Lowman the lead role in Arthur Miller?s play Death of a Salesman. In the play, Willy is an aging salesman who is coming to realization that his life hasn?t taken him exactly where he wanted to be. Willy never tries to help his present circumstances but only flees them by recalling better times in the past when his predicaments were few. The use of evasion as a tool to flee problems begins to affect Willy like an addictive drug and as the play progresses the audience soon discovers the lethality of that drug.
Willy?s first dose of his evasion is when his son Biff returns home from out west. While discussing with his wife Linda his disappointment in Biff, Willy is unable to cope with the realities of his son Biff?s few accomplishments. Willy resorts to evading these disappointments in Biff and returning in his mind to an auspicious time when things were more favorable for him and his family. Although remembering the ?good old days? is something perfectly normal to do, it is important that we don?t let those better memories shelter us from our current problems. However, this is exactly what Willy fails to do; never does he return to his original problem, he just goes on like it never surfaced.
As the play progresses Willy becomes more addicted to his drug. The next time he heads to his safe haven of evasion is during another conversation with his wife Linda. Willy is in low spirits and begins self-criticism; he moans that he cannot move ahead in life because people do not like him. He also complains that he talks too much and how he believes people laugh at him for being too fat. Willy is beginning to see some truth in life "I know it when they walk in. They seem to laugh at me."(Pg. 23) Once he begins to see the reality of his life not living up to his dreams Willy enters his safe heaven. Willy thinks of ?The woman?, his mistress, he recalls a time where she does her ?job? by telling him how great he is, reassuring him of his great character and his good looks. When she accomplishes her task in his flashback, poof the woman vanishes, and his flashback is over. Willy is left falsely satisfied, but in good hopes and carries on with his day. Once again his miracle drug evasion rescues him from dealing with the realities of life.
After his last flashback Willy has become more confident, even to the point that he is full of himself. Willy goes to see his boss, Howard, in hopes of being appointed a local job allowing him to stay at home and to be relived of the traveling salesman title. Howard ends up firing him that day and Willy is forced to see the reality. By loosing his job Willy is brought to an all time low, so severely that Willy needs an immense dose of his drug like never before. Willy thinks of the best day in his life, the day Biff played in the All Scholastic Championship Game. This was a point in life when Willy?s pride in his sons had swelled to an all time high and all was in good hope, so much that Willy believed that his sons would live great lives from that day on. But suddenly Willy's swollen bubble of pride for his sons is unexpectedly deflated that same day when Biff forces him to see the reality of his shortcomings in life. The pressure begins to mount minute by minute and Willy?s need for his drug is increased, he can no longer cope with his problems and there is nothing left to run to and hide behind, at this moment Willy is hit hard as all of his problems have caught up to him.
Willy soon finds out, using too much of something, even a good thing, eventually becomes a bad thing. This is shown in his next flashback when Willy?s use of evasion backfires in his face, forcing himself to see painful realties in his life. In this particular flashback, Willy is taken back to the most disgusting point of his life, when Biff finds out about ?The Woman?, and he finds out that Biff has flunked math. The audience has now been exposed to the very moment that had started Willy?s depression and downward spiral. Since this point is now unveiled, and there are no happy memories left for Willy to take refuge against, Willy no longer has anyone/anything to run to. With his last hit of ?the drug? used, where else can he flee to?
It is sad yet ironic that Willy?s drug of evasion never really ended up helping him; it only gave him a false sense of happiness until his problems were given a chance to catch up again. Miller's intention in this play is to show through Willy Loman a major flaw in many people's character: that people tend to run from their problems, rather than taking care of them right then and there. By running from your problems you only set you up for a greater collapse for yourself when things finally catch up and hit you all at once. This is exactly what happened with Willy Loman, and in his case he couldn't handle the realties of life all at once and in the end it literally killed him.
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