Willy Loman is the main character of "Death of a Salesman". He is an old salesman who is lost in fake hopes about how things should be and how they really are, he kind of lives in the past. ... Willy also thinks that he is worth more dead than alive. Willys feeling of not being wanted or needed by his job or his family and the fact he thinks he's worth more dead than alive makes him try to commit suicide a few times in which he fails, until the end of the play when he does finally kill himself....

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He's sixty-three years old and is the salesman around whom this play "Death of a Salesman- is constructed. Willy Loman is a traveling salesman who grew up inspired by the success of his salesman father, who left his family for Alaska. ... He doesn't manage to tell the truth, even his dead he justifies by saying that his sacrifice will save his sons, particularly Biff, because of the insurance money. ...

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When he died "and by the way he died the death of a sales man, in his green velvet slippers hundreds of salesman and buyers were at his funeral."" ... Ironically enough, Miller's title of this work, Death of a Salesman, taunts Willy's desire to become successful. ... After all the highways, and the trains, and the appointments, and the years, you end up work more dead than alive."" ... For Willy Loman, being a middle-class white salesman wasn't good enough; he wanted get rich quick with out hard work, enjoying the material wealth of the American Dream. ... Willy "Low-man- ...

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In "The Death of a Salesman-, by Arthur Miller and "A Doll's House-, by Henrik Ibsen both portray two people who realized their independence when they were at the end of their rope. ... Death of a Salesman is a moving destruction of the whole myth. ... Willie Loman, in "Death of a Salesman-, has lived his life in pursuit of the American dream. ... Eventually, he gets tired of her nagging him about a situation that's dead, he sends off a letter stating Krogstad dismissal. ... In "Death of a Salesman- the play ends with Willy killing himself in order for his sons to become successf...

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Arthur Miller's "Death Of A Salesman" is a story of a common man whose misaligned ideas of success ultimately lead to his demise .Having no central figure as a role model, Willy Loman (the salesman) is torn between accepting his own failure, relying on his own son's success, redeeming himself to his son, or listening to his deluded conversations with his deceased brother Ben. Although Ben is dead, his pseudo presence ultimately leads to Willy's tragic suicide. ... His boss and a fellow salesman were his mentors. ...

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