Living in the Past in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman

Arthur Miller, A play writer in the twentieth century, wrote a play entitled Death of a salesman that won him the Pulitzer Price just a year after its release. In the play Miller expresses the life of a 60 year old salesman that undergoes through lack of success in his life and sees the same thing happening ,to his two grown sons now in their mid-thirties, as the American dream faded away being replaced by capitalism in the late 1940s. The play starts of by introducing Willy Loman, the protagonist, and tells the story of the final twenty four hours in Willy’s life all the way to his death and funeral. Between that time laps the audience is able to see Willies past thanks to his constant daydreams, along with his sons past and wife and their current situation all the way to Willies suicide. Willy kills himself in order to get achieve his dream of being successful and having a lot of money the way Willy in vision his death to be just like the death of a salesman in which everyone across the nation would attend his funeral. Unfortunately for Willy his dream died along with him as no one attended his funeral but his family and friends or “Friend” in this case considering that Willy only had one remaining friend the rest had died or believed that he had selfishly killed himself. Throughout Millers vivid play writing and expressive thoughts he is able to capture the audience attention and convey the message that People are so often scared of reality that they hide from it by living I the past. In death of a salesman Willy Loman decides to neglect reality by living in his past ultimately leading to his death due to lack of success and failure.

Willy Loman is trapped in the past. He is always obsessed with what he could have done inste...

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...his death to be just like the death of a salesman in which every person over the territory would join his funeral. all through Millers vivid play writing and expressive thoughts he is adept to arrest the audience vigilance and express the note that persons are so often shocked of reality that they hide from it by living I the past. never realizing that happiness is a gift given to us in any aspect available in our life’s found in an object memory person or just the simple fact to be alive. Yet human desire to want more we crave have an obsession for having more even more happiness more than that gift. Unfortunately for Willy his illusion past away ironically by living in the past it self that created happiness but end up destroying him. The happiness that was once given by morals as respect, being able to give and receive love to another person was replaced by money