Analysis Of Salesman In Death Of A Salesman

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In the play Death of a Salesman the author, Arthur Miller illustrates the struggle of most American husbands from the nineteen forty-nines. Amidst all that is happening around the world with the Great Depression in the nineteen thirties the character of Willy Loman strives to support and maintain his wife and their home by paying their mortgage for more than twenty years. Though Miller does not specify what is it that Willy sells we can assume Miller implies that we should connect to this play no matter the time gap of nineteen forty-nine to the present. Hundreds of people lose their jobs every day and with the industries being cheap sakes they will try and find any way possible to avoid having to pay a high check every month to its retirees. This leads to another relatable topic that is emphasized in this play. When Willy confronts his boss Howard exclaiming “You can’t eat the orange and throw the peel away---a man is not a piece of fruit” (Miller 326) we are able to acknowledge the cause of Willy’s breakdown. To better understand the reasoning behind Willy’s anger and frustration w...

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