Single Parent Households In Arthur Miller's Death Of A Salesman

In Arthur Miller’s American Tragedy, The Death of a Salesman, Willy Loman is showcased as a poor impoverished failed salesman. The entirety of the play showcases the main character Willy Loman as a depressed, demented, individual who never truly accomplished anything despite his big dreams. Willy Loman was a father which enabled him to get a job to support his family, this option wouldn’t have been available if he were a woman. Yet Loman still lacked a job that would have benefited him in the future. He was only a salesman; he had no salary, no stable job, no connections. Even with this unstable job it would be difficult to support his family as he was the only provider. With only one set of income from highly unstable job, Loman’s family was in poverty for

That means 12% of all single parent households in America meet the status of extremely poor. It’s sad on paper but thinking of it in the context of reality makes it much more unsettling. 12% of single parent households cannot afford food on a daily basis.12% of single parent households cannot afford their rent and risk getting evicted. 12% of single parent households cannot afford basic necessities to live. In 1970, the amount of single-income households with children was 3.8 million in America alone; yet in 1990, the number had dramatically increased to 9.7 million (Kirby 27). There was no precedent for a spike this high, Pews Research Center revealed that one in four kids are destined to an unmarried mother; yet almost all of these mothers aren’t even the age of majority. That means these young woman, not even 25 are having children and supporting them on their own. As anyone might expect, single parents with children have the most astounding rate of need over other demographics (Meyer 7). Single Mothers are by every statistic doomed to fail. Not only are they disadvantaged from a statistical standpoint, they are setup to