This individual can’t let go of the idea that popularity and riches are what are most important within a man.
Inside the second take action, Willy will get a terrible whack. He points out to his boss, Howard, how he met a salesman when he was about nineteen, and admired the man’s skills, and decided that sales was the very best work a man would have. But he tells Howard he’s fatigued, and this individual wants to work in the store instead of on the road. Howard keeps showing him there’s no opening pertaining to floor revenue, and then finally tells him the truth: the business is going to let Willy go. Howard says:
HOWARD: I believe you need a good long rest, Willy… After which when you feel better, come back, and we’ll see if we can job something away.
He explains to Willy that is no moment for false pleasure and that he ought to ask his sons to get help, although Willy has run on fake pride every his your life. He can’t let go of it now that his career is definitely crumbling about him. In the center of this desperation, he whizzes back to his Uncle Bill, who genuinely could close a big deal with just a phone call, who visited Alaska with nothing and came back wealthy. This simply helps prop up Willy’s notion that it needs to be easy to obtain wealth, producing him even more a failure because he has worked so difficult but not accomplished it.
Everywhere Willy turns there are signs that this individual held to false philosophy. He incurs Bernard who is grown, has two children, and is doing perfectly professionally. Biff, it turns out, failed math, don’t make up the credit rating, and never got his high school diploma. Near to the end in the play, we discover out why. Biff trapped his father with one more woman whilst Willy was out of town. Biff idolized his father, yet sees him give stockings to a odd woman while Linda regularly mends hers. More than anything, Willy has always wanted Biff to take pleasure in him and do well. As Willy’s job is falling apart, he recognizes Biff like a failure, and all he and Biff do is dispute.
Planting fresh vegetables in the backyard that will by no means grow, Willy imagines his funeral large funeral with individuals coming from numerous miles to mourn his passing, and money to supply for Bela. The one thing this individual has done well is shell out his life insurance.
WILLY:… The can come from Maine, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire!… that youngster will be thunderstruck, because he under no circumstances realized – I i am known!… he will see it with his eyes for good… He’s set for a shock, that boy!
Yet Biff will not think this way. He is tired of all the lies, of having Willy tell persons Biff was obviously a salesman when he worked in the stock place, that Happy is “near the top” when Biff knows your dog is several notches down from that on the company ladder. People have made justifications about his petty thefts for years, and now he reveals the whole fact: he spent three months in jail for theft. This individual doesn’t need what Willy wants. He wants the free existence of a farm hand. This individual doesn’t have Willy’s ambitions.
Biff has stripped Willy of most his rationalizations, his family members goes to bed, and Willy imagines one more time that your dog is talking to Bill. Ben says
BEN: The jungle is definitely dark nevertheless full of diamond jewelry, Willy.
Willy gets in his car, rates off, and kills himself in a crash.
Charley says at the end with the play that “a salesman has got to wish… It comes together with the territory. ” Willy’s tragic flaw was that he imagined what he wanted to complete and then lived as if these dreams had been reality. This individual saw merely one way to have success. He had not been suited for that path but could not release the illusion. Willy was never a famous person. He hardly ever made big money or obtained great things, but the real tragedy in his life is that he was as well proud to allow himself being satisfied with who he