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

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

the signs. Willy may be acting weird but he is just an old man. Willy acts weird, but every old man has acter weirdly. Willy is growing old and is just losing his memory and a few other senses from his previous life. Being old has it's own problems and that is what he is showing. In the novel Death of a Salesman evidence provides enough information to point out Willy is experiencing carbon monoxide poisoning due to his mental and physical issues.
Willy shows varying manifestations of carbon monoxide poisoning, especially mood swings envisioning ghosts. When willie came home and was happy but then he yelled at his wife for no apparent reason, and this matches symptoms of carbon monoxide inhalation. Willy, with casual irritation: "I said nothing happened. Didn't you hear me?" (13). Willy was kind and was hungry but when his wife bought a different kind of cheese he yelled at her because he wanted his normal kind of cheese, it was a bit random. Willy: "I don’t want change! I want Swiss cheese." (17). Willy gets visited by people throughout the novel, especially by his brother Ben. When ben enters into the play (44). The mood swings and envisioning the ghosts have had severe effects on his mental health and shows the link that connects his actions to the carbon monoxide poisoning.
Although there are links to the carbon monoxide poisoning, it is not the only possible reason for him acting in such outrageous manners. Although having mood swings and yelling at his wife and other people are an effect of carbon monoxide poisoning, it could be that he is fed up with being pestered and interrupted by his wife. "Linda: I'll make a big breakfast- Willy: Will you let me finish?..." (67). Although he is yelling at her about the cheese, it could be because he is just starving and he let his temper go, especially if he does not like change. "Willy: Why do you get American when I like swiss?" (16). Even though Willy can see ben, that does not mean that he is a ghost. It could just mean that he is remembering the brother that he loves. Admitting all of these points are valid, the evidence that he has the carbon monoxide poisoning is still too great to contradict.
Granting that both sides of the evidence has thorough and an immense amount of proof, Willy can either have carbon monoxide poisoning or can not have it. Linda tells us about how Willy was well liked, had many friends, was kind to people and put family first and with all of the evidence saying that he is mean, cruel and has major mood swings, how does a guy like that just end up like this? Willy has been getting tired, because he is becoming old. He is tired of being contradicted and just wants to be left alone and get what he wants for once. His wife bought the cheese she knows he does not want and so he lost his temper, you can not help but notice that he is old and tired. Even Though these points on both sides are good, there is only one answer. I believe that he has Carbon monoxide poisoning because you do not just get mad at people for cheese, especially not your wife. You may get frustrated, but you also do not just start seeing people when you are tired and mad. He has been inhaling carbon monoxide. Linda was holding a pipe that was connected to the Carbon monoxide tube. He has been showing 21 of the 23 symptoms recorded from carbon monoxide poisoning. All of this evidence has shown us both sides of the argument about Willy having or not having carbon monoxide poisoning, but the evidence is too compelling for us to overlook the fact that he has the carbon monoxide poisoning.
After receiving and interpreting all of the information provided, there are possibilities that Willy does not have Carbon monoxide poisoning but it almost guaranteed that he has it.

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

granted.