Analysis Of Willy Loman

            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 works on commission and nothing else and he gets to a point where he cant bring enough money home to pay the bills. The place he works for has pretty much used him and now no longer has a need for him so they will basically throw him away after 34 years. Willy has bad routine of having flashbacks. Having flashbacks might not be that big of a problem for some people but for Willy it is because of the fact that he lets it interfere with his everyday life and is starting to have trouble distinguishing between fact and fiction and between past and present. Willy believes things that are not true. For example he thinks his sons are very successful, but in reality they are not at all. His son Biff can't even keep a job because he steals for no reason. Most of the flashbacks Willy has are of after Biffs senior year of high school when all of the family problems started. 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.