The Importance Of Death In Death Of A Salesman

When growing up I always had plenty of deaths in the family. I was never able to understand how a person, especially a child could experience 3-6 deaths a year. My heart was broken, eyes swollen, and emotionally unstable at the time. The truth be told I did not realize what to resolve with myself, besides lock in my emotions and fake they weren’t there. As a young man, I was taught not to show fear, tears, but only happiness. One day a remarkable shock hit me when I received a call about my grandfather’s death. I pretended that the facts lied, my grandfather was really much alive and will always be. After the horrible incident, I closed down from people, because of that my past relationship never worked out due to me not opening up. This reminds me of Willy since he pretends the

In the beginning of the novel Death of A Salesman Willy is discussing with Linda how he should start working in New York, he says how he will try and talk to the boss but Howard isn’t appreciative of Willy’s work. The self-assurance in his tone was shown when telling Linda “If old man Wagner was alive I’d be in charge of New York already “(Article 1, page. 14). There is so much fantasy built up in his head that he feels successful enough to tell Biff and Happy “Be liked and you will never want. You take me, for instance.” (Article 1, page. 33). The climax of Willy finally coming out of his delusion that his life/job is stable is when leaving the restaurant after getting ditched by Biff and Happy. When walking out he mumbles “I’ve got to get some seeds, right away. Nothing planted. I don’t have a thing in the ground” (Article 2, page. 122). The realization of working at a job for 40 years, but still having nothing to show finally got his attention. This is why he bought some seeds since he can’t grow anything with his children and the vegetables will dispense some