Death of a Salesman :A sobering reality

The classic and iconic play by Arthur Miller death of a salesman is one of my favorites and quite frankly I’m obsessed with the work. It is the story of Willie Loman a burnt out salesman who clings to his past dreams and glories and still believes his son Biff who is a general loser will one day become a success. Even though Arthur Miller had written this brilliant piece of literature many years ago it still holds up and somehow is truly relevant to the world and circumstances we find ourselves in today. I am not going to elaborate on what I am going to say next but I see myself in poor Willie Loman. I don’t know what made me think this but I thought for a long time that Willie Loman was suffering from the early stages of Alzheimer’s.

Willie’s loving and doting wife stood by him through everything and the more that I watched this movie I mean it does the fact that it’s a two act plate gives it away that you know death of a salesman takes place in the time span of two days just a little technical feature I want to point out. And what we see with Willie Lohman is he lives in the past that he desperately wants to get back as I said in the beginning and he and his son Biff used to be awesome but then BF was not doing very well with math so he goes up to see his father that being Willie’s and catches him cheating on his mother and that is what completely destroyed their relationship, but no one ever admits it because it would kill Linda.

The point is is that Willie Loman still wants the American dream so badly for himself and his family and even though through all their failures and such it actually makes him suicidal which at the end is him killing himself then hence why this place is named death of a salesman. Linda and Willie’s other son Happy is just there. Willie’s long since passed brother Ben appears to only Willie in his head because he is talking to the past and memories of Ben who achieved the American dream on his own terms but going in to the African jungle and finding the diamond mines and emerging from a rich man beyond his wildest dreams.

In today’s day and age people are still struggling and going through the same hardships that the Loman family had faced in this literature, and also earlier in the article I had said that this play is relevant beyond its wild imagination, and it is because recently Nathan Lane starred in a remake of the play, and even after it was written, death of a salesman has become a play that so many wonderful actors have portrayed Willie Lohman, and it is one of those rules that really taste a lot out of you, but still, the actress chosen do phenomenal jobs in itself.

I totally get why it’s taught in English class in high school and college or wherever you go to learn stuff you know at the time you read it in your class and you’re not realizing what it’s all about but then if you’re like me, you become so fascinated with the story, you begin to totally understand it from inside and out, and that’s really how I’m gonna close this article. Thanks for reading bye bye-bye. Now this is just my opinion, but everybody needs to read this book and if not at least know about it that’s all.