At the very outset of my essay, I will you to get to know Willy Loman. ... Willy Loman is a traveling salesman who grew up inspired by the success of his salesman father, who left his family for Alaska. ... But in fact, there are two Willy Lomans in the play. There is the Willy Loman, how we met him at the beginning of the Book, as an exhausted man, which life is soon at the end. And on the other side, the young and self-assured Willy Loman, who appears in Willy's flashbacks and fantasies. ...

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Willy Loman states: I'm fat. ... Willy Loman had one chance in his life to become successful. ... To help Biff succeed where he has failed, Willy decides to kill himself so that Biff will inherit the insurance money. ... - (135) Willy expects this will allow Biff to achieve success. ... In conclusion, Willy Loman tries his best to gain wealth. ...

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Willy Loman is a 60 year traveling salesman who was employed by the Wagner firm for 34 years. ... Ben was the epitome of success and of lost opportunity for Willy Loman. ... Unfortunately, Willy attributed Ben's success to being rugged and well liked consequently raising Biff and Happy the same way. ... Willy Loman tragically drives to his death in pursuit of the reward, a twenty thousand dollar life insurance policy, he hoped would allow Biff to become the success he never was in life. ... Willy Loman's legacy was one of empty dreams and intangible greatness and success, the ...

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Willie Loman is an ordinary man who embodies traditional American values of success. ... Willie Loman had already achieved the historical dream, he had a house, car, family and a job, but he gets obsessed with the business success dream and tries or at least he think he does try to accomplish it but he dismantles his family in the process. Willy Loman had accomplished the historical American Dream but because of his ambition he did not realize it. ... At the age of sixty Willy had built a family and had two sons. ... Happy saws how Biff always got their dad whole attention, and Biff reali...

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In Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, Willy Loman is a textbook example of a failure as a good father in every way mentioned previously. Not only is Willy Loman not a good father and husband, but he furthers his failure by being a classic anti-hero and by failing to achieve the American Dream. ... As a result, he cannot love them as a father should; his love for Biff has been based on his achievements as an athlete, and, when Biff loses his scholarship, Willy is so devastated that he no longer loves Biff as he once did. ... Any reader would desire to be, rather than all that Willy Lom...

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Willy Loman is, for Miller, the antithesis of the classic tragic hero. ... There are other flaws in Willy Loman that lead to his demise. ... Willy Loman despite his desperate searching through his past Willy does not achieve the self-realisation or self-knowledge typical of the tragic hero. ... Willy inculcates the wrong values in his sons, Biff and Happy. ... The failure of the Loman Brothers (particularly Biff -- Willy's favourite) to achieve success and to keep up with Willy's high and unrealistic expectations disappoint Willy. ...

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Willy is caught by his son, Biff with another woman. This discovery leads to Biff's apathetic attitude towards life. ... Willy had great hopes for Biff. Biff had the charisma and charm that was instrumental in his success as a child. ... Being tormented by his past and realizing he has failed; Willy Loman is haunted by his brother's success, and ultimately gives in to the ghosts of his conscience. ...

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A dream that Willy Loman can't quite catch because he continues to conform to the past and present, not to the future. As a father, Willy urges his sons, Biff and Happy, to follow the morals he lives by. ... "Not finding yourself at the age of 34 is a disgrace" (pg. 11) Miller descripts the disgrace Willy shows towards Biff for not finding himself. When all Biff wants to be is someone different, someone unique to the morals of Willy Loman. ... Willy Loman carried false hope throughout his life. ...

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In the play Death of a Salesman Arthur Miller identifies the relationships of Willy Loman and his family. Miller also focuses on the relationship that Willy Loman has with society. ... Willy Loman is a failed salesman in a success-oriented society. ... The exploration of the theme of failure with Willy's children and within a success-oriented society identified the relationships of Willy Loman. ... Even today Willy Loman remains an important fig...

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Willy Loman firmly believes that being well-liked is a key attribute in reaching success. ... Willy's poor choice of a job forces the entire Loman family into a life of financial hardship. ... Success is evident in the characters Ben, Charley, and Bernard, whereas qualities of failure correspond to Willy and Biff. For this reason Ben, Charley, and Bernard are opposites of Willy and Biff. ... Willy feels that since Biff, his son, is an outstanding athlete and well-liked, his futur...

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Willy is so focused on money that he takes his life in order to give Biff money to start a business. ... Willy's failed ideas are reflected clearly through his sons Biff and Happy, who by living by their father's teachings were doomed to share the same menial existence as Willy. ... In this pivotal scene all the members of the Loman family finally recognize the reality of their lives, including Willy. ... As Biff says in the Requiem, "[Willy] had the wrong dreams. ... It is as Arthur Miller said in an interview with Philip Gelb " The trouble with Willy Loman is that he has...

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Miller portrays his main character, Willy Loman, not as an evil, selfish person, but as a well meaning yet misguided person. ... Willy focuses all his attention on Biff, as he believes that he has the best qualities in order to become successful. Biff originally believed in the American dream until he went to Boston and witnessed Willy's affair. ... Willy believes in the American dream so much that when he discovers Biff's own beliefs, his personal failures become more apparent. ... Willy Loman died, and the American dream is to blame....

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Miller portrays his main character, Willy Loman, not as an evil, selfish person, but as a well meaning yet misguided person. ... Willy focuses all his attention on Biff, as he believes that he has the best qualities in order to become successful. Biff originally believed in the American dream until he went to Boston and witnessed Willy's affair. ... Willy believes in the American dream so much that when he discovers Biff's own beliefs, his personal failures become more apparent. ... Willy Loman died, and the American dream is to blame. ...

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Willy Loman's drive for success affects his family, his friends, and most importantly himself. ... Willy is married to Linda and has two sons named Biff and Happy. ... Biff Loman is Willy's elder son and is one very complicated individual. Biff had always been favoured by Willy as a young man with great potential in life. ... Willy Loman's drive for success drove him mad. ...

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Willy Loman, the main character, symbolizes everyone who has ever fallen short of their dreams in our society of capitalism. ... Willy Loman's problems stem from his own delusions, and his quest for material happiness eventually takes his life. ... Although Willy Loman was struggling financially, he never realized what he actually had: a great family who loved him dearly. ... She is also effecting their children Biff and Happy in a negative way because they grow up having the same ideals as their father. On the other hand, Willy's friend Charley and his son Bernard are quite suc...

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But I believe the problem for people like Willy Loman is that "The American Dream" had died. ... One can be found on page 32 when the principal charachter Willy Loman expresses his jealousy towards the successes of his brother Ben. Ben knew what he wanted, Willy says. ... On page 54 Willy remembers one occasion when his son Biff was playing at Ebbets Field. ... From my studies Willy Loman was all about success and pride. ...

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Most of the story takes place in the home of Willy Loman in Brooklyn, New York. Willy, his wife Linda and their two sons Biff and Happy are what Miller uses to attack the materialistic aspects of the American Dream. ... However, Willy favors Biff more than Happy. ... In this part of the play, Biff and Happy are contemplating about their life and Biff is telling Happy how he is unsure about his life. ... Even more ironic is the fact that while success just comes to Happy, Willy, who favors Biff and idealizes success, isn't finding it so easy to reach success himself. ...

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Willy Loman, the protagonist of this play, is probably the most washed up and distraught of all the characters. ... Biff comes to the realization of his position in life. He knows he is not cut out for the business world, yet Willy will never be able to understand this fact, and Biff will remain a disappointment. Willy's contradictions, which are prevalent throughout the play, are many times related to Biff and his unknown path in life. An example of one of these contradictions is when Willy tells Linda that "The trouble is he's lazy goddammit" (text, page 1010,) and then in less t...

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In the Death of a Salesman, the main character Willy Loman struggles to be superior to society but tragically fails because of his arrogance and stubbornness. Willy is an exhausted father of two sons, Happy and Biff, and husband to Linda. ... Biff, the oldest son, was a popular high school football star. ... Biff would've lived up to Willy's expectations, but Biff's motivation in life was diminished after he witnessed Willy's affair with another woman. Consequently, Biff failed math and was rejected every-time he tried to get a job. ...

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Linda and Biff can also be true to themselves as they do not have to conform to Willy's unrealistic expectations. ... Miller also uses stage directions to show how Biff tries to keep Willy in reality and attempts to make him live honestly. ... Willy's imparting of immoral advice contributes greatly to Biff's lack of success. ... " because he is unable to accept that Biff hasn't been successful in the career path Willy has chosen for him. ... Despite this, Willy commits suicide to allow Biff to have money to become successful. ...

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In Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, Willy Loman, a salesman, has to confront failure in the success driven society of America. ... Willy believes that Bernard has better luck than Biff. Happy, Willy's younger son, and least favored of the two, has lived in the shadow if Biff all of his life. ... Although Happy is considerably more successful than Biff, Willy still believes that Biff is merely getting a late start in life. ... However, when Biff catches him having an affair with another woman, Biff loses all respect for him. ...

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