Carbon Monoxide Poisoning In Arthur Miller's Death Of A Salesman

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I had a friend named Doug, I knew him over the internet but we became very good friends as we became better friends we shared more stories, he was bullied all of the time. Eventually he told me that he was going to commit suicide, he attempted it in front of me, but I enabled him to stop. Due to this he and I refrained from speaking again. Willy is attempting to do it to help his family, but..Suicide is not getting rid of your problems it is just passing them on to someone else. All of the evidence shows us that Willy has Carbon monoxide poisoning. Willy has carbon monoxide poisoning because all of the signs are proving the evidence. There are ways to contradict that he has it, but he is showing too many of these signs. He is showing many of …show more content…

Willy has been attempting to kill himself and it is only a matter of time before he succeeds. Especially because we know that the title of the book tells us that Willy dies. The evidence is showing us that his symptoms are getting worse and worse, which can only mean that death is coming quicker and quicker towards him. It is also showing us that he is not really trying at anything anymore, and that he just wants to die. Willy has been attempting, but he is not succeeding because if he was succeeding he would be dead already. Willy has been going through a very hard time in his life when all of his values are being broken by himself. Since we know that Willy is a prideful man this is hurting him a great deal and is only going to cause him more pain and unfortunately he is looking at suicide as his only out from that pain. Despite the fact that he has his family to go to, not accepting other jobs, and helping himself by finding help to stop this, he just automatically is attempting to kill himself and is not considering the options he has, is his life really that bad? Perhaps to him it is, and it just lets us understand what we take for

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