Essay On Willy Loman's Death Of A Salesman

The Death of a Salesman highlights the struggle of everyday life and the outcome thereof. That is--over a substantial amount of time. Not only that, it also makes us reflect on the essence of a man. What makes a man a man or a woman a woman? Simply put, what makes a person an individual person with needs? This question is not easy to answer and cannot be confined to an essay or to a play for that matter. A person has many intricacies that cannot always be defined or said. The play did not only attempt to define what makes a person a person, but also attempted to answer a fundamental question. It is asked whether or not an idealistic man can come out whole of a society that fulfills to dream or to fulfill dreams of its adherents and

To be precise, he says, “You can’t eat the orange and throw the peel away--a man is not a piece of fruit.” What is interesting here is that Willy, the tragic main character of Death of a Salesman, is saying that one cannot eat an orange or use it up and throw it away. When he is saying ‘the orange’ what is he is really referring to is himself. He means the ‘me’ here. It is linguistically pertinent when he says, “a man is not a piece of fruit.” The orange, here, is distinct from other fruit. He places the orange instead of the fruit to highlight his individuality and importance as an individual, a singular person who has needs, and is not simply a cog in a machine. The fruit, in this case, refers to objects that are not people. He anthropomorphizes “a piece of fruit,” ‘the orange’--to allude to the fact that people are individuals with names and are not merely tools to be used-- ‘a man is not a piece of fruit.’ Parallelism, a beautiful thing--an orange is referred to as ‘the,’ meaning ‘me.’ A piece of fruit uses ‘a,’ to highlight the fact that Willy should not be an ‘a’ to the employer rather ‘the’ or ‘the’ specific person who the employer knows personally and