Death Of A Salesman Willy Character Analysis

In the play, The Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller,Willy Loman, an unsuccessful business man struggling to support his family is completely out of touch with reality throughout the plot line. Many characters throughout this play and their interactions with Willy have showed the audience his true colors and what he thinks is important in life. His constant lying and overwhelming ego certainly does not portray his life in factual terms, but rather in the false reality that he has convinced himself he lives in.

Being raised by Willy, Biff and Happy are becoming failures and have no motivation to work hard to achieve anything in life. Throughout this novel, Biff has a few recurrences with stealing.With each item Biff steals, Willy fails to scold him and show him wrong from right, but rather brushes it off and influences him to lie about it. After Biff steals a fountain pen, Willy’s response is, ”You give it to him and tell him it was an oversight...You were doing a crossword and accidentally used his pen!” (Miller 112). He is completely telling Biff to lie to the owner of the pen and act like he is innocent when in actuality, Biff is guilty of stealing the pen. Interactions

For instance, as Howard is firing Willy who is much older than him, he says “But where am I going to put you, kid...No, but it’s a business, kid...Kid, I can't take blood from a stone…” (80). Howard’s only reasoning for referring to Willy as “kid” has to be a matter of authority and respect since Howard is years younger than Willy. If Willy was a successful salesmen, not only would he gain respect from his boss, but he certainly would not be called kid because of a superiority matter. In the same conversation Willy brings up fake statistics about what a wonderful salesman he is and once again is and once again this is just a big